{"id":405276,"date":"2021-10-16T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T11:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=405276"},"modified":"2021-10-16T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T11:11:27","slug":"why-we-dont-kidnap-women-%e2%80%95-bandits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=405276","title":{"rendered":"Why we don’t kidnap women \u2015 Bandits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Evelyn Usman<\/h4>\n

For some time now, communities in Kaduna state and other parts of the Northern region have been under kidnappers\u2019 siege.<\/p>\n

Having succeeded in chasing farmers away from their farmlands, these kidnappers who hide under the guise of bandits, commandeered these farmlands into dens where kidnapped victims are kept until a ransom is paid.<\/p>\n

Recently, these gangs resorted to storming villagers\u2019 homes to kidnap them. They kill anyone who attempts to put up resistance or tries to fight them.<\/p>\n

They also send text messages to well to do residents, demanding for hundreds of thousands of naira, with a threat to kidnap them if they did not meet the demand.<\/p>\n

Irked by the brazen effrontery, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, directed the officer-in-charge of the Force Intelligence Response Team, DCP Tunji Disu, to crack members of the notorious gangs down and put an end to their reign of terror.<\/p>\n

This led to the arrest of many suspected members of different kidnap gangs by the IRT. During preliminary investigation, it was discovered that these gangs were also responsible for the series of incidents of stolen cattle and robberies in Kaduna state.<\/p>\n

Among those arrested were two suspected members of one of the notorious gangs.<\/p>\n

The suspects: Salisu Abdullahi(28), from Kagarko area of Kaduna and Babaginda Usman, disclosed during interrogation that his gang was responsible for over ten cases of kidnap in the state. Among the kidnapped victims mentioned were two Reverend Fathers and two businessmen, one of whom was killed after collecting ransom from his family.<\/p>\n

Confession<\/p>\n