Dreaded Kidnap Kingpin, Serial killer Arrested In Niger

The Niger State Police Command has arrested a notorious kidnap kingpin and serial killer identified as Alhaji Bashiru Abdullahi who is reported to be a resident of Bangi, Mariga Local Government Area of the state.

The 40-year-old serial killer was among the criminals paraded by the police at the force headquarters in Minna, the state capital.

The State Police Public Relations Officer, PRO, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, who confirmed his arrest said Abdullahi was arrested in Kontagora, Kontagora, Local Government Area of the state.

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According to him, the suspect was apprehended on the 14th of July after a verified intel made available to the force in Minna.

Abiodun said Abdullahi was uncovered to be the one behind the murder of his younger brother, identified as Alh. Mamuda Abdullahi, aged 35 years.

Sources revealed that the suspect killed his brother from the same address in March 2022. The police spokesman said Abdullahi was nabbed while he was planning and making effort to recruit armed men to carry out his usual kidnapping operation.

According to him, during interrogation, “Bashiru confessed that he planned to kidnap a former Local Government Council Chairman of Mariga and the father of a former Commissioner in the State who owed him about N1.3m from a business transaction between them, while he was expecting to get fifteen million naira ransom from the plan.”

Abiodun also revealed that “sometimes in the month of March, 2022, the said Alh. Bashiru was suspected to have murdered his younger brother one Alh. Mamuda Abdullahi aged 35yrs from Bangi and when he was interrogated, he confessed to the act that he contributed money with his brother to the tune of seventy-nine million naira for a business purpose.

But he suspected that his brother swindled him and he hit him with a stick on the head which resulted to his death. However, he told the family members that his brother was attacked and killed by bandits at Beri.”

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“Meanwhile, the case is under investigation with a view to unravelling other criminal acts of the suspect, as well as unveiling and arresting other suspected members of his gang,” he added.

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