{"id":4241,"date":"2025-05-19T07:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2025-05-19T07:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:37:04","slug":"wanted-kidnapper-arrested-during-screening-of-intending-pilgrims-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/wanted-kidnapper-arrested-during-screening-of-intending-pilgrims-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted kidnapper arrested during screening of intending pilgrims in Abuja\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Security operatives have apprehended a suspected kidnapper, Yahaya Zango, at the Abuja Hajj camp while he was undergoing routine screening alongside intending Muslim pilgrims set to be airlifted to Saudi Arabia for this year\u2019s Hajj.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a report by Daily Trust, a security source at the camp, who confirmed the arrest on Sunday, said Zango, who hails from Paikon-Kore in the Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), was declared wanted by security agencies over his alleged involvement in a series of kidnappings.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIt was this afternoon during the screening at the Hajj camp in the airport when the DSS operatives apprehended him and whisked him away,\u201d the source stated, noting that the arrest occurred amid preparations for the airlift of pilgrims.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Zango reportedly presented his international passport and joined the queue with other intending pilgrims before operatives of DSS identified and arrested him.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Confirming the arrest, a senior official of the FCT Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, who requested anonymity, said that the suspect had been on the run and was caught just as the screening process commenced.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cHe tried to blend in with the pilgrims to escape detection, but the operatives were already on alert,\u201d the official said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The DSS was yet to issue an official statement on the arrest as of the time of filing this report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security operatives have apprehended a suspected kidnapper, Yahaya Zango, at the Abuja Hajj camp while he was undergoing routine screening alongside intending Muslim pilgrims set to be airlifted to Saudi Arabia for this year\u2019s Hajj. In a report by Daily Trust, a security source at the camp, who confirmed the arrest on Sunday, said Zango, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1120,2715,2714,2399,2153,1580],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arrested","tag-detection","tag-kidnapper","tag-operatives","tag-pilgrims","tag-screening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4243,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/4243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}