{"id":337652,"date":"2021-04-09T22:01:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T21:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=337652"},"modified":"2021-04-09T22:01:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T21:01:33","slug":"how-fulani-men-recruited-me-into-kidnapping-gang-in-ibadan-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=337652","title":{"rendered":"How Fulani Men Recruited Me Into Kidnapping Gang In Ibadan \u2014 Suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A suspected kidnapper, Muhammed Hammed has said that he was recruited into a kidnapping gang at a beer parlour by some Fulani in Ibadan, Oyo State.<br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nHe disclosed this while responding to questions from journalists at the Osun state police command headquarters in Osogbo.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2021\/04\/How-Fulani-Men-Recruited-Me-Into-Kidnapping-Gang-In-Ibadan.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nHammed, who was arrested after kidnapping two persons at Wasinmi, spoke in Hausa language, saying it was his first job after he was enlisted into the gang.<br \/>\nHe said, \u201cI met some Fulani guys at a beer-drinking joint in Ibadan. They told me there is a business they run along the Ibadan-Ife Expressway and I was asked to join.<br \/>\n\u201cWe blocked the expressway, stopped a car and abducted two of the passengers into the forest. I was caught because I didn\u2019t know the bush path very well and I got lost.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Fulani guys include one Alhaji, Buba, Siraju, Sodiq, and Seidu. I can\u2019t recall other names now.<br \/>\n\u201cI have never been a member of Boko Haram, I am from a village in Tambuwal local government area of Sokoto state and I was wandering around Ibadan before I met the Fulani guys that recruited me.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was destined that I would be caught because it was my first operation with them, though from what they told me, it was their usual job.<br \/>\n\u201cI know I had been caught by the law, I don\u2019t know what awaits me, but I wish the government can forgive me and give me another chance. I have never killed anyone before, this is my first act against the law.<br \/>\n\u201cSincerely, I don\u2019t know where the six others are since I lost my way in the bush and I don\u2019t know where they live because I met them at a drinking joint,\u201d the suspect narrated.<\/div>\n<p>(SaharaReporters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suspected kidnapper, Muhammed Hammed has said that he was recruited into a kidnapping gang at a beer parlour by some Fulani in Ibadan, Oyo State. He disclosed this while responding to questions from journalists at the Osun state police command headquarters in Osogbo. Hammed, who was arrested after kidnapping two persons at Wasinmi, spoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[1517,550],"class_list":["post-337652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-ibadan","tag-kidnapping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/337653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}