By Dedeigbo Ayodeji
Police Operatives have arrested a ‘deadly’ criminal gang responsible for the kidnap and murder of a Catholic Seminarian, Nnadi Michael. Blackboxnigeria gathered.
The criminal gang, had on January 9, 2020, stormed the Catholic Seminary at Gonin Gora, Kakau in Chikun LGA of Kaduna State and kidnapped four seminarians, murdered one of them in cold blood and released the remaining three on 31st January, 2020, having obtained a ransom, the remains of the fourth Seminarian were found in a bush where abandoned.
The suspects: Tukur Usman ‘m’, aged 37, father of 7, Shehu Bello ‘m’, aged 40, father of 5 and Mustapha Mohammed ‘m’ aged 30, father of 1.
Discreet investigations by the police revealed that the arrested suspects are part of a 19-man gang, responsible for the kidnap of Dr Phillip Ataga’s wife and two daughters on January 24, 2020 at Juji Community, Chikun LGA of Kaduna State.
Mrs. Ataga was killed by the gang following her heroic resistance to the despicable and inhuman attempt by the leader of the gang to rape her. The suspects after killing her released the daughters and corpse of the slain woman to the family after collecting ransom.
Further investigations reveal that the same criminal gang is responsible for the kidnap of six students and two teachers of Engravers College, Chikun LGA, Kaduna, from their school premises on October 3, 2019.
The suspects, known to belong to a hybrid terrorist criminal network causing untold havoc in North-Central, Nigeria, have confessed to several other random operations along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway where they kidnapped, killed and robbed motorists, collecting ransom and valuables running into millions of naira.
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni while reiterating that the Force will remain unrelenting in ensuring that crimes across the country are reduced to the barest minimum, assures the nation that the Force will not rest until the other members of the gang also responsible for the above crimes, are apprehended and brought to book.
