Two infamous kidnappers who are causing terror in the nation’s capital, Dahiru Adamu and Abu Ibrahim, had a N20 million bounty placed on them by Federal Capital Territory Administration Minister Nyesom Wike.
The two Niger State-born suspects are believed to be behind the kidnapping of two defense personnel from an Army Estate as well as other prominent figures in Abuja.
The suspects were also members of the group that abducted people from Kabusa, Kutu, and other areas in the Federal Capital Territory and murdered an Abuja district chief.
Wike spoke with Bennett Igweh, the FCT Commissioner of Police, on Wednesday at the FCT Police Command Headquarters in Garki, Abuja, during a parade of 23 criminal suspects.
Seven members of Dahiru and Abu’s kidnapping gang—Usman Muhazu, Aliyu Muhammad, Auwal Lahiru, Rabiu Sani, Madina Abubakar, Jonah Elimelechi, and Saminu Idris—are among the detained suspects.
In the same way that they haven’t been providing FCT inhabitants any breathing room, Wike said that his administration will not offer criminals any.
“I take it you’re still searching for two of them? Alright, I’ll wager money on them. A N20 million bounty has been placed on both of them by me. The minister declared that N20 million would be awarded to whoever finds them.
“Fishe them out—alive or dead. The Minister continued, “We won’t give them breathing room just as they haven’t been giving us breathing space.
The police chief had earlier stated that, as a result of reliable information, a joint team of agents from the Utako Divisional Headquarters and the Anti-Kidnapping squad apprehended the seven suspects in Pyankasa, Tudun Wada, and Ketti village.
The Commissioner said, “But we are still searching for the two gang members who are still out there, Dahiru Adamu and Abu Ibrahim, whose wives were apprehended just as they were about to get paid a N9 million ransom for their husbands who are out there.”
Members of this kidnapping ring, who have been causing the FCT a great deal of anxiety and have been on the command’s wanted list for a while, have now been taken into custody. Five victims at Federal Mortgage Housing Estate, Kabusa; three in Ketti village; Alhaji Sani’s Fulani residence; the kidnapping of a woman and her gate man in Kabusa Estate; one Mr. Sunday Zakwai; and four more incidents are all attributed to them. They also murdered the head of the district. Additionally, two employees of the Defence Estate in Kabusa were abducted.
The CP reported that 23 individuals were detained during the procession, and that N9 million, six AK-47 rifles, bulletproof jackets, and a walkie-talkie made locally were found on them.
23 suspects in all, including one-chance offenders and eight infamous armed robbers, were detained, according to Igweh. Recovered from them included N9 million, six AK-47 weapons, bulletproof jackets, and a walkie-talkie made locally.
