Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested a deadly suspected kidnapper, Bello Mohammed, in Kaduna.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said the suspect, an indigene of Zamfara State, was arrested on Saturday, 20th January 2024
TheFact Day learns that the Divisional Police Officer, Tafa Division, acting on intelligence, mobilized operatives to raid a hotel in Tafa Area, Kaduna. The operation led to the arrest of the suspect with the sum of N2,250,000 (Two Million, two hundred and fifty thousand naira), suspected to be proceeds of ransoms collected from kidnapped victims within the area.
The suspect, during interrogation, confessed to being part of the gang that kidnapped the family members of one Barrister Ariyo in Bwari, FCT, on 2nd January 2024, and killed some kidnapped victims, including Nabeeha, daughter of the legal practitioner, on 13th January 2024, in a kidnappers camp, in Kaduna State.
It was gathered that the suspect, in a dramatic situation, offered N1,000,000 to induce the DPO, who rejected the offer and carried out his duty diligently.
According to Adejobi, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has ordered that the suspect, who also confessed to his involvement with the already five (5) neutralized bandits in Kaduna by the IRT, headed by one Mai Gemu (aka Godara), and whose deadly camp has also been destroyed, be handed over to the DFI-IRT in Abuja for discreet investigations into the matter and arrest of all other culprits responsible for the dastardly act.
