A bandit arrested by operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Abdulrahman Adamu, has admitted that he used his share of ransom cash from kidnapped victims to drink and womanize.
Adamu is amongst eight suspects paraded on Monday by the FCT Commissioner of Police, Tunji Disu.
Disu listed the suspects as Abdulrahman Giwa, Baba Hassan, Mohammed Dahiru, Abubakar Bature alias Dayi, Abubakar Kadiri alias Dare, and Kabiru Ibrahim.
Others are Ya’u Adamu and Hussani Ori, also called Mugu.
Disu acknowledged that the suspects terrorized communities within the FCT, Kaduna, and Niger states. He additional revealed that their chief, recognized solely as Mallam, together with eight others, was killed throughout a shootout.
“All suspects are members of a kidnapping/banditry gang led by one Mallam (surname unknown), now deceased. Throughout operations concentrating on the strongholds of the abductors within the Kweri and Gauraka Forests, Mallam and eight different suspects had been neutralized after an intense change of gunfire. Sadly, two operatives of the FCT Command sustained critical accidents and are presently receiving therapy within the hospital,” stated Disu.
Disu additionally disclosed that intelligence gathered indicated that the gang held their hostages in numerous places, together with Gidan Dogo Forest in Kaduna, Gauraka Forest in Niger, and Kweri and Kachia forests in Kaduna.
The police recovered a number of displays from the gang, together with three AK-47 rifles, 100 rounds of reside 7.62 ammunition, and 10 AK-47 magazines. Efforts are ongoing to arrest the remaining gang members and get well extra arms and ammunition.
In an interview with journalists, Adamu confessed to creating some huge cash from kidnapping actions, together with N600,000 within the final operation earlier than his arrest.
He stated, ‘’ I joined by way of certainly one of my associates. He’s useless now. What we do is to kidnap folks for cash. The folks I used to be accused of killing had been primarily based on the directions of my boss. My boss is useless now. I’ve made some huge cash kidnapping folks. Within the final operation earlier than we had been caught I revamped N600,000. “
When requested what he used the cash for, he stated, “I used my cash to drink and carry girls. I used it to womanize and drink.”