Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested three more people suspected of being members of the kidnapping gang that abducted a dean at Nasarawa State University.
Professor Samuel Avengbe Okunsebor, the university’s Dean of Agriculture, was abducted by gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday, 15 July 2026, at Mile Uku, a border community between Lafia and Nasarawa-Eggon local government areas.
He was rescued by DSS operatives two days later. Two suspects, including a woman, were arrested at the time.
The security source said the three additional suspects were arrested on Friday night at a local brothel along the Mararraban Akunza section of the Lafia-Makurdi highway.
The suspects were identified as 25-year-old Yakubu Abubakar, also known as Black or Starboy, from the Doemak tribe in Plateau State; 37-year-old Usman Abubakar Mairiga; and 27-year-old Sale Babauro Abubakar.
The source said Mairiga and Sale Abubakar are Hausa and Fulani respectively.
The three suspects are currently being held at the state DSS command for further investigation, the source said.
The source added that their detention followed the issuance of a valid detention warrant by a magistrates’ court.
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