The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) overseeing Tarfa, under the Kaduna State Police Command, has rejected a bribe of N1 million from a suspected kidnapper apprehended with N2.35 million in cash believed to be ransom proceeds....CONTINUE READING
The Police Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Mansir Hassan, disclosed that the suspect has admitted to being part of a kidnapping gang operating in various parts of Kaduna state.
A photograph retrieved from the suspect’s phone depicts him wielding an AK47 rifle in the forest.
ASP Hassan further stated that the 28-year-old suspect, identified as Bello Muhammad from Zamfara State, is cooperating with the police, providing valuable information.
The Police spokesman: “Following the directives of the Commissioner of Police Kaduna State Command, CP A.D. Ali, PSC to personnel to be proactive in their operation using an intelligence-based policing approach, Operatives attached to Police Divisional Headquarters Tafa, Kaduna have arrested a suspected kidnapper and recovered shared ransom.
“On the 19th January, 2024 at about 2200 hours the said Divisional Headquarters was in receipt of 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.
“During the course of the investigation, the suspect 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 of his mobile phone corroborated the suspect’s confession as pictures of him brandishing an AK47 rifle in a forest were retrieved.
“The said suspect Bello Muhammad thus, offered a million naira backhander to the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) to stop him furthering the investigation which the Police Officer forthwith rejected.
“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, psc while praising the Tafa Division’s Operatives, urged them and others not to dwindle but to increase the tempo until crimes and criminality are reduced minimally.
“Equally, the CP tasked hoteliers, recreation and leisure service operators in the State to always scrutinise the identity of their customers to avoid providing criminals with safe haven.”
