Nigeria, May 19 -- Operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) on Sunday arrested two high-profile suspected kidnap kingpins as they made to depart Nigeria for Saudi Arabia to observe the holy pilgrimage.

Security sources disclosed that the suspected kidnappers had been on SSS' radar for over a year, and that screening at Hajj camps in different parts of the country offered the operatives the opportunity to arrest them.

According to the sources, SSS officers nabbed both kidnap kingpins at the Abuja and Sokoto Hajj camps.

While suspected kingpin Yahaya Yakubu, who lives in Paikon - Kore village in Gwagwalada area council of the Federal Capital Territory, was nabbed at the Abuja Hajj camp, Zamfara-born Sani Aliyu Galadi was arrested n...