Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a 52-year-old Islamic spiritualist, identified as Jubril Ibrahim, and four others over alleged involvement in kidnapping. DAILY POST reports that the spiritualist and the other suspects, identified as Ahmadu Suleiman, Mohammed Abubakar, Tukur Adam a.k.a. Dogo, Musa Ibrahim and Iro Ibrahim, were arrested on August 30, […] Police arrest 52-year-old spiritualist, four others over Edo kidnapping
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a 52-year-old Islamic spiritualist, identified as Jubril Ibrahim, and four others over alleged involvement in kidnapping.
DAILY POST reports that the spiritualist and the other suspects, identified as Ahmadu Suleiman, Mohammed Abubakar, Tukur Adam a.k.a. Dogo, Musa Ibrahim and Iro Ibrahim, were arrested on August 30, 2026, in Niger State.
The Commissioner of Police, CP, in charge of the Command, Patrick Daaor, disclosed this while parading suspects arrested for various crimes across the state.
Daaor alleged that the suspects had been terrorising parts of Edo North Senatorial District, particularly the Auchi, Jattu and Okpella axis.
The CP alleged that the spiritualist specialised in preparing charms for the suspected kidnappers.
According to him, the arrest of the suspects followed the abduction of one Mohammed Tasiu Imokhe and his wife at Jattu, in Etsako West Local Government Area, on August 8, 2026.
The police commissioner stated that following the reports of the development, the Anti-Kidnapping Unit and Violent Crime Response Unit immediately swung into action, leveraging technical and actionable intelligence from the Technical Intelligence Unit, TIU, Abuja.
“This led to the arrest of Malam Jibril Ibrahim, Mohammed Abubakar, Tukur Adam a.k.a. Dogo, Musa Ibrahim and Iro Ibrahim on 30 August 2026 in Niger State.
“The suspects have confessed to the Jattu kidnapping and several other kidnapping operations in Edo and Kogi States.
“Acting on information obtained from the suspects, operatives subsequently recovered two fabricated AK-47 rifles, one pump-action rifle, six magazines and 200 rounds of live AK-47 ammunition from the Okpella forest on 1/9/2026.
“The profiling of the suspects and efforts to apprehend other members of the gang are ongoing,” the statement said.
In an interview, the spiritualist, Jubril Ibrahim, denied preparing charms for the suspected kidnappers, claiming that he only prayed for one of them on the instruction of his mother.
The spiritualist said, “I gather almajiri and teach them the Qur’an. So, Ahmadu Suleiman’s mother came to me and said I should be praying for her son, that he travels a lot, so I should pray for his safe trip to and from, and that is what I have been doing. I pray for him to have a safe trip.”
He, however, admitted that he knew that one of the suspects, Suleiman, had an AK-47 rifle in his possession.
On his part, the 24-year-old Suleiman said he was only involved in one operation in Auchi, adding that he works with various kidnapping syndicates across the country before returning to his base in Niger State.
Suleiman, who spoke through an interpreter, said: “When we get to the community, we look for a beautiful house and shoot into the air, and in the process of scampering for their lives, they run out, and we hold them and take them to the bush, and demand for money.”
He said he received N1 million from the Auchi operation, alleging that it was the only kidnapping operation he had been involved in in the area.
He said he was involved in other kidnapping operations in Kogi State and elsewhere, where he received between N500,000 and N700,000.
He denied working with any informant, stating that they only looked out for fancy cars and buildings whenever they wanted to carry out a kidnapping operation.
Police arrest 52-year-old spiritualist, four others over Edo kidnapping
