Aytorinde Oluokun/Abuja
About 3000 kidnappers are in custody of Police nationwide, the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris said on Friday.
He spoke to journalists after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
According to him, a task force had been inaugurated to scrutinise and streamline the suspects with a view to ensuring their speedy trial.
“We are taking them to court on everyday basis. Presently we have almost over 3000 suspects in the various police stations all over the country and we are taking them to court.
“Recently, I set up a task force to sort of streamline or scrutinize these cases so that we have speedy trial of some of these suspects,’’ he said.
Idris also revealed that he had deployed special police unit to patrol the Abuja-Kaduna- Kano highway with a view to checking the menace of armed robbers and kidnappers along the road.
He expressed the hope that the nation would soon witness drastic fall in cases of kidnapping in view of the proposal by the National Assembly to enact a law that will make the crime attracts death penalty.