The Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) says it has arrested four suspected killers of a Bauchi State lawmaker, Musa Mante and a retired Divisional Police Officer (DPO).
IRT while disclosing this in a statement said the suspects were nabbed in a coordinated operation led by the teams Commander Tunji Disu.
According to the statement, the kidnappers confessed that they killed the retired police DPO and Chief Superintendent of Police Garkuwa because he reportedly for made life tough and miserable for them by always searching for them while he was in acting service.
Similarly, they disclosed that they killed a serving lawmaker, of the Bauchi State House of Assembly and kidnapped his wives and children for failing to assist them with money after seeking his assistance several times.
The operation followed complaints by indigenes of Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State on their activities and intelligence reports gathered.
The suspects were identified as 48-year-old Hamishu Galadima also known as ‘kan wuka’ (meaning knife’s head in the Hausa language), Abdulwahab Alhassan, Andulwahab Ahmed and Hamidu Saleh.
The group were said to be behind armed robbery operations and kidnappings in Plateau, Bauchi and Kaduna villages and market roads.
Their confession: “We entered the house of the honourable member House of Assembly Hon. Musa Mante and killed him inside his room and took physical cash of two million naira (N2,000000),” the leader of the gang, Galadima, said.
“And we kidnapped his two wives and took them to Dutsin Miagoshi Igala and the victims spent almost four days in captivity and we demanded a ransom of N35 million.”
On how they killed the lawmaker, he said that he was the one guarding the deceased man’s gate while other gang members entered through the roof of the house and took away his money before killing him.
Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi while reacting to the development gave the assurance that all the suspects would be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of the laws.