Yaradua's daughter saved by the SSS from attempted kidnapping.

Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security
Service, Thursday said it thwarted an
attempt by some kidnappers to abduct one
of the daughters of late President Umaru
Yar’Adua.
Marilyn Ogar, the agency’s spokesperson,
said two suspects, Hamza Abubakar (27)
and Lawrence Okoro (43) have been
arrested in connection with the incident.
According to Ms. Ogar, the two suspects
had on August 21 had attempted to kidnap
the unnamed Mr. Yar’Adua’s daughter at
her construction site in the Kado area of
Abuja.
She said the two suspects colluded with
five others, still at large, to plan the
abduction.
The five other suspects are Abu Katsina,
Daddy Mohammed, Isa Keteri, Masa’udu
Kateri and another person simply identified
as Ik.
Ms. Ogar said Mr. Abubakar befriended Mr.
Katsina, a security guard at the late
president’s daughter’s construction site,
who aided him to visit the Kado
construction site regularly.
The SSS spokesperson said, “Having
obtained sufficient information on the lady,
he contacted Dennis, who was at Owerri at
the time. The suspects had planned to
kidnap and detain the woman at Zuba, in
the residence of an acquaintance of Okoro.
However, the SSS operatives, acting on
actionable intelligence, foiled the plot.
“Both Hamza and Dennis and other
collaborators shall be charged to court
soon.”
Ms. Ogar said Mr. Okoro  and Mr. Abubakar
were charged with armed robbery in 2000
and 2006 respectively and were both
remanded at the same Goron Dutse Prison,
Kano.
The two, the SSS said, became friends while
in prison and reunited in August this year
after their freedom and then plotted the
kidnap of the late President’s daughter.