One of six members of a kidnapping syndicate has recounted how
the syndicate got to its target businessman, Abubakar Bashar, by
using information from the boy who herds his cow for him.
The syndicate member, Bello Abdullahi, spoke to newsmen on
Monday in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, where he is being
detained by the state police command.
The Command had, in a separate interaction with newsmen,
confirmed that the professor with the Modibbo Adama University of
Technology (MAUTECH) Yola, who was kidnapped last Thursday, has
been released.
The 20-year-old Bello Abdullahi who is one of two confessed
kidnappers of Abubakar Bashar, currently in police custody as the
other four are yet to be arrested, said, “I am Bello Abdullahi from
Yobe State. It is true I am one of the syndicate who abducted
Abubakar Bashar of Jimeta Market.
“We were six in number. Our leader in the group told me that we
were given N20 million as ransom for the release of AD Bashar. They
gave me N450, 000 as my share. I bought 10 cows in my village in
Yobe.
“We got information on how to get AD Bashar from the boy who
herds his cow for him.”
The Adamawa State Police Public Relations Officer, Sulaiman
Nguroje, who spoke further on the arrest of Bello Abdullahi and one
other as well as the release of MAUTECH Professor Felix Ilesanmi,
said, “The Adamawa State Command has recently been facing security
challenges. In view of that, the commissioner of police summoned
divisional police officers and we were able to interact and to
design operational strategies on how to do away with crime.
“In the course of the efforts, we were able to arrest some
kidnappers who have been terrorizing the command. Most recently,
they conspired and kidnapped a prominent businessman in this state
known as AD Bashar.
“The intelligence department of this command has really been
working and we were able to arrest two, leaving four at large, and
we are trying extra hard to see how we can track them down.
“Also, because of the serious efforts we have been making, the
kidnappers of the professor who was recently kidnapped released
him. The kidnappers are on the run but the command is doing
everything humanly possible to round them up.
“It is because the kidnappers knew we were after them that they
released the professor. They became afraid and abandoned him.”
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