By Terna Chikpa, Jalingo
Taraba State Police Command on Wednesday disclosed that its men had on Monday, arrested a suspected kidnapper with a cash sum of N8,555,000 million in Jalingo, the state capital.
Commissioner of Police Joseph Eribo, disclosed this while parading the crew of kidnappers and arm robbers at the command headquarters Jalingo.
According to him, on the, 29th January 2024 at about 2145 hours, a team of mobile Police attached to 40PMF Jalingo, posted on nipping point duty at Yaggai along Jalingo – Yola bye-pass, arrested one Aliyu Mohammed, of Mubi town in Adamawa State, aged 35, in a Toyota starlet ash colour with registration YLA 321 ZY.
The commissioner said during interrogation, the suspect could not give satisfactory account of himself, hence, search was conducted on his vehicle and a cash sum of N8,555,000, seven mobile phones, three thousand unused MTN recharged card and Seven amulets were discovered in his car.
“Immediately police started searching the vehicle, two of the suspect jumped out and ran into the bush. The Suspect tried to bribed the PMF personnels, requested them to take the whole money and allow him go but the PMF personnel refused and arrested him accordingly.
“During our further investigation, we discovered another N4000,000 in the suspect’s bank account,” the police Commissioner narrated.
Meanwhile, the suspect Aliyu Mohammed, denied being a kidnapper or criminal of any kind. He, however, explained that the criminals requested him to drive them to Ngolore market near Yola, Adamawa State to buy cows since their vehicle was in a bad condition.
According to him, the criminals explained to him that the money was a stolen money, and they were going to buy cows for their boss.
CP Aribo also disclosed that the operatives of Anti-Kidnapping team, acting on a tip-off, succeeded in arresting a crew of suspected kidnappers terrorizing Jauro Ganah new CBN and environs.
They include, Habibu Ibrahim aka Rilwanu, Abba Mohammed aka Gandari, Aliyasssa’u Umar, Abdulaziz Adamu aka Dan-Mallam, Danlami Ibrahim aka Teacher, all of Jauro Ganah New CBN, and the suspects have confessed to have involved in many kidnapping incidents that took place around Jauro Ganah and new CBN respectively while three AK47 rifles with five rounds of live ammunition each were recovered from the suspects, and they are giving useful information that could lead to the arrest of the fleeing members of the gang.
