How Family of Five Was Killed over Refusal to Join Kidnap Gang

•Suspect kidnaps sibling, receives N1m ransom

Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja

A member of a 20-man kidnap gang based in Kaduna, yesterday, told a shocking story of how his gang wiped out a family of five over their refusal to join the gang.

The 30-year-old Falalu Abdulmumuni, a member of the gang operating around Kadun/Zaria axis, admitted and confessed to the membership of the gang.

The suspect, who was among the 26 suspects paraded by the police in Abuja, said the gang approached a certain Ardo Shuaibu to join the gang but he refused.

He said the gang was further infuriated that he instructed his children never to join any kidnap in their life time.

Falalu also confessed that he and his gang members, headed by a certain Yaroro had met at Dumbi Dutsen Abba and proceeded to the residence of Ardo Shaibu at Dorayi village in Kaduna State, where they shot and killed Ardo Shaibu and his entire family.

Responding to questions during the parade of the suspects in Abuja, he said the family was eliminated because of the father’s decision not join the gang.

 “Why did you kill Ado Shuaibu?

“We killed them because he told the children never to join any kidnap gang.

“He said if they join, he will never forgive them. Because of that we killed the entire family,” Abdulmuminu said.

Meanwhile, another suspect, Hamza Aliyu, upon interrogation confessed that he joined the kidnapping gang headed by the same Yaroro and later invited his gang to kidnap his younger sister, Ladidi, because he had earlier appealed to her to lend him the sum of N50,000 but she refused.

After her kidnap, his father and his sister’s husband paid the sum of N1million for her release and he received the sum of N100,000 from his gang as his share of the ransom.

Force Public Relations Officer and Assistant Commissioner of Police, Olumuyiwa Adejobi said, “investigation is still in progress and efforts and measures are being put in place to ensure the arrest of every member of this notorious gang.”