Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have apprehended three additional suspects in connection with the abduction of the dean of agriculture, Nasarawa State University, Prof. Samuel Avengbe Okunsebor.

Saturday Telegraph gathered that the suspected members of the kidnapping ring were rounded up on Friday night at a local brothel on the Mararaban Akunza, Lafia – Makurdi highway.

Okunsebor was rescued by DSS operatives two days after some gunmen kidnapped him in the wee hours of Wednesday, July 15 at Mile Uku, a border community between Lafia and Nasarawa-Eggon LGAs. Two suspects, including a lady, were earlier arrested by the intelligence agency.

A security source disclosed that DSS operatives arrested the three other members of the kidnapping gang on Friday night at a local brothel on the Mararraban Akunza, Lafia – Makurdi highway

According to the source: “The suspects were identified as 25-year-old Yakubu Abubakar (aka Black/Starboy), of the Doemak tribe in Plateau State; 37-year-old Usman Abubakar Mairiga, and 27-year-old Sale Babauro Abubakar. Mairiga and Abubakar are Hausa and Fulani respectively.

The source also disclosed that the suspects are in the custody of the State Command for further investigations.

The move, he added, followed a valid detention warrant from a magistrate’s court.

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