On May 9, 2020, Epe Police Station received a complaint that one Salisu Mohammed ‘m’ 17 years old was kidnapped and taken to unknown destination by a group of kidnappers, numbering about five, while he was sleeping at the cattle rearing center Epe. The kidnappers established contact with the family and demanded the sum of #10,000,000,00 as ransom.
The Command’s Anti-kidnapping team was promptly deployed to Epe. The victim was rescued unhurt on the 13/05/2020, inside a tick forest within Epe without payment of ransom. All the suspects were arrested. They are Umaru Abdullahi ‘m’; Majuba Mohammed ‘m’; Aliyu Alhamajo ‘m’; Mohammed Umaru ‘m’; and Shehu Malami ‘m’. They confessed to the commission of the crime.