Officers of the Kaduna State Police Command attached to the Tafa Divisional Headquarters, Kaduna, says it has arrested a suspected kidnapper and recovered his share of the collected ransom.
In a statement signed on thursday by the state police spokesman, ASP Mansir Hassan, said “On the 19th January, 2024, at about 2200 hours, the said Divisional Headquarters was in receipt of a credible information regarding the presence of a suspicious person in Easyway Hotel in Tafa town.
“Operatives led by the Divisional Police Officer stormed the hotel and arrested a certain 28 years old Bello Muhammad from Zamfara State and recovered the sum of two million, three hundred and fifty thousand naira (N2,350,000:00) suspected to be proceeds of kidnapping.”
The suspect during interrogations admitted to being a kidnapper who operates with his gang around Kagarko forest in Kaduna.
“The aforementioned sum is his own share of a ransom collected. Moreover, a check on his mobile phone corroborated the suspect’s confession as pictures of him brandishing an AK47 rifle in a forest were retrieved,” the statement added.
The statement further exposed that , the said suspect offered the sum of N1 million as bribe to the DPO in a bid to stop further investigation into the case but Was rejected by the officer
The statement reveals that “Investigation is still ongoing as the suspect is assisting the police with vital information,”
The Commissioner of Police Kaduna State Command, CP A.D Ali, while praising the Tafa Division’s operatives, urged them to increase the tempo until crimes and criminality are reduced in the state.
The CP equally tasked hoteliers and other recreation and leisure service operators in the state to always scrutinise the identity of their customers to avoid providing criminals with safe haven.
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