The kidnapper who killed the teenager Nabeeha in Abuja has been identified as Bello Mohammed who was arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force on 20th January 2024.
Nabeeha was abducted alongside five of her sisters in Bwari, Abuja on January 2 and was later killed after her family failed to provide the ransom demanded.
A statement released by the spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, Muyiwa Adejobi, says the Divisional Police Officer, Tafa Division, while acting on intelligence, raided one hotel in Tafa Area, Kaduna, where he arrested Bello, with the sum of #2.25m (Two Million, two hundred and fifty thousand naira) only, suspected to be proceeds of ransoms collected from kidnapped victims within the area.
Adejobi stated that the suspect, during interrogation, confessed to being a part of the gang that kidnapped the family members of one Barrister Ariyo in Bwari, FCT, on 2nd January 2024, and killed some abductees, including Nabeeha, f, and another teenager who was the first daughter of Mr Ariyo, on 13th January 2024, in a kidnappers camp, in Kaduna State.
He said that the suspect, in a dramatic situation, offered #1,000,000 (one million naira only) to induce the DPO, who rejected the offer and carried out his duty diligently.
Adejobi further disclosed that the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, Ph.D., NPM, has ordered that the suspect, who also confessed to the involvement of the already five (5) neutralized bandits in Kaduna by the IRT, headed by one Mai Gemu (aka Godara), whose deadly camp has also been destroyed, be handed over to the DFI-IRT in Abuja for discreet investigations into the matter and arrest of all other culprits responsible for the dastardly act. The suspect is currently helping the police in their investigations.
While commending the DPO Tafa, SP Idris Ibrahim, for the commitment and professionalism displayed in the case, the IGP further assured that the Police would leave no stone unturned in decimating criminally minded individuals and bequeathing to Nigerians a more secure society for all and sundry in our dear country, Nigeria.
