Operatives of the Nigerian Police Pressure have arrested a suspected kidnapper believed to be concerned within the kidnapping and homicide of Nabeeha, daughter of a Bwari lawyer.
Recall that about 19 abductees have been taken by bandits from Sagwari Property Format in Dutsen-Alhaji space in Bwari Space Council of the Federal Capital Territory.
The abductors demanded N700 million ransom for 9 of their victims.
The abductors had killed 4 of the hostages, together with Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar, a 400 stage scholar of Organic Sciences, Ahmadu Bello College, Zaria, and 13-year-old Folashade Ariyo. Nabeeha was kidnapped together with six different siblings.
The siblings have been kidnapped on January 2 together with their father, Alhaji Mansoor Al-Kadriyar, from their dwelling at Zuma 1, on the outskirts of Bwari city in Abuja.
Nonetheless, in an announcement on Sunday, the police mentioned that 28-year-old Bello Mohammed was arrested on January 20 throughout a lodge raid in Kaduna with suspected N2.25 million in ransom. Below interrogation, Mohammed confessed that he was a part of the gang that kidnapped lawyer Ariyo's relations in Bwari on January 2.
“The operatives of the Nigerian Police Pressure on January 20, 2024, arrested one Bello Mohammed, 28, from Zamfara State, Kaduna.
“The Divisional Police Officer of Tafa Division, performing on intelligence, raided a lodge in Tafa Space, Kaduna, the place he arrested Bello, with the sum of solely #2.25 million (two million, 2 hundred and fifty million naira), suspected to be proceeds of ransom collected from kidnapped victims within the space,” the assertion mentioned.
He additional admitted that the gang had on January 13 killed a few of their kidnapped victims, together with Nabeeha, at a camp in Kaduna State.
Based on the assertion, Mohammed supplied N1 million bribe to the DPO who led the operation, SP Idris Ibrahim. However Ibrahim rejected the inducement and arrested the suspect.
“The suspect, throughout interrogation, confessed to being a part of the gang that on January 2, 2024, kidnapped the relations of 1 Advocate Ariyo in Bwari, FCT, and murdered some kidnapped victims, together with Nabeeha, f, daughter of the lawyer, on January 13, 2024 at a kidnapper camp in Kaduna State.
“The suspect in a dramatic state of affairs supplied #1,000,000 (a million naira solely) to influence the DPO, who rejected the supply and carried out his obligation diligently.”
Mohammed additionally confessed to the involvement of 5 bandits who had already been neutralized by the police in Kaduna. Their lethal camp was additionally destroyed.
The suspect is transferred to the IRT, Abuja for additional investigation and to arrest different accomplices. Mohammed is at the moment aiding police with their investigation.
“The Inspector Normal of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, Ph.D., NPM, has ordered that the suspect, who additionally confessed to the involvement of the already 5 (5) bandits neutralized by the IRT in Kaduna, led by one Mai Gemu (alias Godara), whose lethal camp has additionally been destroyed, is handed over to the DFI-IRT in Abuja for discreet investigation into the matter and arrest of all different perpetrators chargeable for the dastardly act. The suspect is at the moment aiding police of their investigation,” the assertion mentioned.
IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun recommended the dedication and professionalism of the DPO. He assured that “the police would depart no stone unturned to decimate criminally minded people and go away Nigerians a safer society.”
