POLICE ARREST SUSPECTED KIDNAPPER IN CONNECTION TO NABEEHA’S MURDER
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A suspect in the kidnapping and murder of Nabeeha, a Bwari lawyer’s daughter, has been apprehended by Nigerian Police Force operatives.
Remember that in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, bandits abducted approximately nineteen people from the Sagwari Estate Layout in the Dutsen-Alhaji area.
For the kidnapped victims, the kidnappers were requesting a ransom of N700 million.
Meanwhile, the kidnappers had killed four of the hostages, including Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar, a 400-level student of Biological Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and 13-year-old Folashade Ariyo. Nabeeha was abducted alongside six other siblings.
On January 2, the siblings and their father, Alhaji Mansoor Al-Kadriyar, were abducted from their Zuma 1 residence, which is situated on the periphery of Bwari town in Abuja.
But according to a statement released by the police on Sunday, N2.25 million in suspected ransom money was found when 28-year-old Bello Mohammed was arrested on January 20 during a hotel raid in Kaduna. Mohammed admitted to being a member of the group that abducted Barrister Ariyo’s family on January 2 in Bwari when he was questioned.
“The operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, on 20th January 2024, have arrested one Bello Mohammed, 28, of Zamfara state, in Kaduna.
“The Divisional Police Officer, Tafa Division, acting on intelligence, raided one hotel in Tafa Area, Kaduna, where he arrested Bello, with the sum of #2.25m (Two Million, two hundred and fifty million naira) only, suspected to be proceeds of ransoms collected from kidnapped victims within the area,” the statement noted.
Furthermore, he admitted that the gang killed some of their kidnapped victims, including Nabeeha, in a camp in Kaduna State on January 13th.
In accordance with the statement, Mohammed offered a N1 million bribe to the DPO leading the operation, SP Idris Ibrahim. But Ibrahim rejected the inducement and arrested the suspect.
“The suspect, during interrogation, confessed to being 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 suspect, in a dramatic situation, offered #1,000,000 (one million naira only) to induce the DPO, who rejected the offer and carried out his duty diligently.”
Mohammed also admitted to being involved with five bandits that the Kaduna police had already neutralized. Their lethal camp was demolished as well.
The suspect is being moved to the IRT in Abuja so that additional inquiries can be conducted and other accomplices can be captured. Mohammed however, is assisting the police with their investigation.
“The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, Ph.D., NPM, has ordered that the suspect, who also confessed to the involvement of the already five (5) neutralised bandits in Kaduna by the IRT, headed by one Mai Gemu (aka Godara), whose deadly camp has also been destroyed, be handed over to the DFI-IRT in Abuja for discreet investigations into the matter and arrest of all other culprits responsible for the dastardly act. The suspect is currently helping the police in their investigations,” the statement noted.
IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun commended the DPO’s commitment and professionalism, adding that “the police would leave no stone unturned in decimating criminally minded individuals and bequeathing to Nigerians a more secure society.”
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