How We Would Have Made N500m From kidnappin This December – Kidnapper Opens Up In Abuja
Sani Mohammed, a member of a 5-man kidnap gang arrested by operatives
of the IGP’s Intelligence Response Team, has disclosed that they would
have made about N500 million from kidnapping wealthy victims in Abuja,
and Kaduna, this December, had they not been arrested.
According to Dailytrust, Mohammed was arrested alongside three others
from their base in Enugu State. Their arrest is sequel to the purported
plan for the gang to kidnap one an Abuja-based businessman, Alhaji
Ulere.
Those arrested along with Sani are: Babangida Garba, Dogo Ibrahim,
and Ibrahim Haruna. Sani told the police interrogators that their plans
were to make at least N500 million from ransom, this December. Sani, who
the police described as one of the dangerous armed robbery suspects and
kidnappers, admitted abducting a lot of affluent people in the past.
In fact, the suspect said, he has lost count of the number of
operations he has embarked on since he joined the gang in 2016. He
narrated: “I’m from Zamfara State, and I was formerly into
cattle-rearing.I came to Abuja in 2007 in search for greener pastures. While in
Abuja, I started working for one Alhaji Ulere. I left him and went to
join a friend in Enugu State after my boss refused to pay me my money.While I was in Enugu I discovered that my friend already had an armed
robbery gang and they were into kidnapping. I joined them.” Sani said
at first they started robbing travellers on the Enugu Port Harcourt
expressway.Normally we block the expressway with heavy logs in the dead of the
night, forcing vehicles to stop. We would rob all the occupants of their
cash and valuables. We take the rich ones among them hostage in a
forest in Enugu.They will be released only when their relatives pay ransom. I can’t
count the numbers of robberies I have taken part in, but the one that
got me into trouble was the kidnapping of my former boss, who sells cows
in Abuja.”
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