‘I Live By Roadside To Make Kidnapping Easy’

A 20-year-old suspect has told police in Osun State that he set
up camps near expressways to facilitate kidnapping travellers.

Twenty-year-old Ahmad Muhammad was arrested on Ife/Ibadan
Expressway at Wasinmi, a village in the state.

During his parade at police headquarters in Osogbo, the state
capital, he said he was one of the seven gang members who kidnapped
passengers on the expressway, adding that he was arrested in a
shootout with police.

He said he hailed from Tambuwal community in Sokoto State.

“We kidnapped two people along Ibadan/Gbongan Expressway after
we made a roadblock. The police were alerted and they faced my gang
in a gun battle during which my other gang members ran away with
the kidnapped victims. It is painful that my other gang members
left me alone in that bush and ran away,” he said.

“It was easy for the police to arrest me because I don’t know
the routes in that bush and I could not trace my steps to the place
where my other gang members escaped to.”

He named his gang members as Alhaji, Buba, Siraju, Sadiq,
Saidu.

“My gang members are all Fulani and they are not new in the
business, it is a means of survival. I don’t have a shelter, I live
along the expressway. I live on the road to make operation easy. I
live along Ibadan, Kaduna, Abuja expressways to block roads and
kidnap passengers for ransom.”

A 20-year-old suspect has told police in Osun State that he set
up camps near expressways to facilitate kidnapping travellers.

Twenty-year-old Ahmad Muhammad was arrested on Ife/Ibadan
Expressway at Wasinmi, a village in the state.

During his parade at police headquarters in Osogbo, the state
capital, he said he was one of the seven gang members who kidnapped
passengers on the expressway, adding that he was arrested in a
shootout with police.

He said he hailed from Tambuwal community in Sokoto State.

“We kidnapped two people along Ibadan/Gbongan Expressway after
we made a roadblock. The police were alerted and they faced my gang
in a gun battle during which my other gang members ran away with
the kidnapped victims. It is painful that my other gang members
left me alone in that bush and ran away,” he said.

“It was easy for the police to arrest me because I don’t know
the routes in that bush and I could not trace my steps to the place
where my other gang members escaped to.”

He named his gang members as Alhaji, Buba, Siraju, Sadiq,
Saidu.

“My gang members are all Fulani and they are not new in the
business, it is a means of survival. I don’t have a shelter, I live
along the expressway. I live on the road to make operation easy. I
live along Ibadan, Kaduna, Abuja expressways to block roads and
kidnap passengers for ransom.”