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,,,,We work as security guards,refuse collector’s,water sellers,to kidnap to our victims-THE SUN NEWS.
,,,,After collecting intelligence in an area, they will come for the rich people!!!
It was the end of the road for three notorious kidnappers and armed robbers, who have been terrorizing residents of Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, with their deadly activities.
The suspects, Idris Ishaku, 27; Bala Umar, 27; and Dahiru Salisu, 27; who confessed to have been responsible for series of armed robbery cases and kidnappings in the Bwari area and other parts of the FCT, said that they get heavily paid by the bandits they work for after every successful operation.
Their activities, however, came to an end when men of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) swooped on them.
The suspects who are mostly Fulani, however, claimed to be natives of Bwari.
They said that they have been working for kidnappers and other criminal groups in Bwari, Ushafa, Kubwa, Gwagwa, Zuba and some parts of Niger State for over six years and have made good money before they were eventually arrested.
One of the gang members, Bala Umar, who also happens to be the leader of the group, said that he was lured into working for the bandits because of the huge amount he makes after kidnapping their victims.
To effectively work as a spy for the kidnap group, he said that they usually work as security guards, water vendors and refuse collectors to deceive innocent residents who employ them without knowing their original intentions.
With this kind of job, he said that they have all it takes to carry out their investigations about the victim they want to kidnap.
To get a potential victim, Umar said that they first of all look for certain criteria, which include the kind of house they live, the kind of cars they drive, the kind of mobile phones they use, how they dress, the kind of schools their children attend, the kind of furniture they have in their houses, among other things that only wealthy people can afford.
With these information, he said that they are good to go. Apart from working as security guards, water vendors and waste collectors, he disclosed that they also engage in farming to keep body and soul together.
The suspects who were recently paraded by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPPRO), Olumiyiwa Adejobi, said that they are sometimes paid as much as N600,000, by the kidnappers.
In this interview with Sunday Sun, Umar, who said he had been in the business for sometime now, said he cannot remember the number of persons he and his gang members have kidnapped as they are many, including males, females and children.
On how they operate, he said: “We usually pretend to look for job to work as security guards and we will go from house to house, especially the fine houses and they will employ us to work for them. Some of us will start selling water in the area while some of us will pretend to work as refuse collectors.
“As a security guard, my duty is to know the kind of cars my Oga is driving and if it is expensive because you know not all cars are expensive, then I will tell my fellow kidnappers in the bush that the man I am working for has plenty money and from there we will begin to plan how to kidnap him and get money from his family.”
On how he identifies rich people, he said: “It is very easy to identify rich people when you work for them because they use big, big phones that they sell for N2 million and above. Apart from that, the kind of school they send their children to too is another way to know whether they are rich or not because some of the school buses that come to pick their children have air-conditioners and you know it is only big-man school that can afford to put air-conditioner in their school bus at this time when the cost of fuel is very high.
Asked how he succeeded in kidnapping some of his employers without being detected, he said that he uses his farm as an excuse to get permission to go out.
He added that whenever he got such opportunities, he would go to meet his fellow spies, the water vendors and refuse collectors, to brainstorm and strategise on how to go about their targets.
As soon as they conclude their plans, they report back to the kidnappers who then come on an agreed date to carry out the operation.
On the agreed date, he said, “after we conclude, I will tell them when they should come to the house and that will be either when my boss is coming back from work and I will go and open the gate for him then they will kidnap him or I will tell them to come in the night as armed robbers and kidnap my boss.”
During such occasions, he said “I will tell them to beat me very well and tie me so that nobody will suspect me and that is exactly what will happen. After they have succeeded in kidnapping the owner of the property that I am guarding, I will be monitoring the negotiations process and soon as the money is paid, I will contact them and they will give me my own share of the money which is usually in cash and I will go to one of my farms and bury it there so that people will not suspect me.”
Asked what he has been able to achieve in his six years as a spy to kidnappers, Umar, said that he has been able to build a house and bought some lands which he used for farming.
Asked if he has any regrets working for kidnappers, he said: “It is the hardship in the country that forced me to join kidnapping and if not for the kind of money that I get from the business, I would have left it a longtime ago. The kind of money in just one operation I make I cannot make such money as a security guard in two years because most of these big-men they will use you and pay you small money.”
Source:THE SUN NEWS.