The Nigerian Police said its operatives have arrested 28-year-old Bello Mohammed who confessed to being part of the gang that kidnapped and killed one of the victims Nabeeha, a 400-level university student on 13th January 2024.
WikkiTimes reports that there have been a series of kidnappings in the last couple of weeks in Abuja communities where several residents were abducted.
On January 9, the suspected kidnappers abducted six sisters of the same family alongside their father, whom they later released to secure N60 million ransom.
However, the abductors later killed Nabeeha, one of the sisters who was a 400-level student at Ahmadu Bello University.
Kaduna DPO Rejects Bandit’s Offer of One Million Naira Bribe
In a statement on Sunday by ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Nigerian Police Spokesman in Abuja, said it discovered that the arrested suspect, Bello was also part of the gang that kidnapped the family members of one Barrister Ariyo in Bwari, FCT, on 2nd January 2024.
“The suspect, during interrogation, confessed to be 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, f, daughter of the legal practitioner, on 13th January 2024, in a kidnappers camp, in Kaduna State,” the state read in part.
ACP Adejobi revealed that the suspect in an attempt to escape arrest, offered One Million naira to the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Tafa Division, in Kaduna State.
WikkiTimes had earlier reported that the DPO rejected a one million naira cash offered him as a bribe by an attested bandit Bello Muhammad.
The bribe offer came after the DPO identified as SP Idris Ibrahim, trailed the notorious bandit to a hotel in Tafa, an arranged ransom collection venue.
The police said they have recovered a sum of N2.25 million from the suspect.
IGP Kayode commended the DPO for Rejecting the N1 million inducement as well as the commitment and professionalism he displayed in the case, assuring that they would leave no stone unturned in decimating criminals in the country.
The IGP ordered the handing over of the suspect to the DFI-IRT in Abuja for discreet investigations into the matter and the arrest of all other culprits responsible for the act.
