NIGER: Govt demolishes houses of suspected kidnapper in Minna

THE State Government has demolished the residence belonging to a suspected notorious kidnapper.

Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Internal Security, Emmanuel Umar, who supervised the demolition, said the suspect had confessed to having built the house with the proceedings of his crime.

The house, which is a two-bedroom flat with an uncompleted two-bedroom extension, was located in the Nkangbe Area in Bosso Local Government Area of the state.

Umar said the measure was to serve as a deterrent to other criminals that the state government would give no chance to criminals to use the state as a hideout.

Umar refused to give the operational details of who the kidnapper was and how his residence was discovered.