- Adamu lodged a complaint to the police about some persons threatening to kidnap him or members of his family.
Three persons have been apprehended for attempting to abduct one Yahaya Adamu in Bauchi, the police in the north east state have said.
The suspects were also accused of criminal conspiracy, threat to life, criminal intimidation.
In a statement on Sunday by SP Ahmed Wakil, spokesperson of the Command, the suspects threatened to harm members of the complainant family.
Wakil, however, reiterated its commitment to tackling kidnapping and other heinous crimes.
According to Wakil, Adamu lodged a complaint to the police about some persons threatening to kidnap him or members of his family.
He said “On the 7th day of March 2024 at about 1400hrs, one Yahaya Adamu, of Badakoshi village Bauchi LGA, complained to the Anti-Kidnapping Unit (AKU) domiciled in the Criminal Investigation Department of the Command.
“The complainant reported that on March 4, at about 2030 hrs, an anonymous individual called him and introduced himself.
“He threatened him to produce the sum of N5 million.”
A few days later, the suspected kidnappers sent him their account details, using a Point of Sale (POS) business account to request the amount, Wakil said.
They also disclosed that they knew all his family members and where his assets were located, stating that Adamu would be endangering his life if he did not do as he was told.
“The suspected kidnappers emphasized that they knew all his assets and family members and to prove it, they started mentioning their names one after the other, further threatening that if the complainant resisted depositing the demanded amount, he would be at risk.”
According to him, upon receiving the intelligence, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Auwal Musa, directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to discreetly investigate the circumstances surrounding the report.
“The investigation was conducted using modern technology and resulted in the arrest of the suspects, Haro Adamu, 35; Aliyu Saidu, 40; and Musa Umaru, 35, of Birnin Kudu town in Jigawa.
“The suspects were arrested in Birnin Kudu town in Jigawa State and Kaltunga via Plateau State,” he said.
The spokesperson explained that an interrogation was conducted with the suspects who allegedly voluntarily confessed to the criminal act.
He added that they would be charged to court for prosecution
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