A suspected kidnapper, Sani
Haruna aka Gayu, who was arrested by the Inspector General of Police special
team has confessed that he has lost count of the number of
people he killed for failing to pay ransom.
In an interview at one of the
safe locations in Abuja where he is being held, the 20-year-old father of two
said he did not take part in kidnapping, adding that he was in charge of the
security of the kidnapped victims.
He said he was the one who was
detailed to kill any of the victims who was unable to pay a ransom as demanded
by his boss.
He said since he was in charge of
securing the victims and killing them if they failed to pay the ransom, he was
trained by his boss on how to handle weapons, especially AK 47 which he
described as the choice weapon of the kidnappers.
Sani Haruna, who spoke in Hausa,
however, begged the Federal Government to give him a second chance to join
forces with the police to fish out other kidnappers operating in Katsina,
Zamfara, and Kaduna-Abuja highway axis of the country.
“My name is Sani Haruna. I am the
guard for kidnapped persons where they were kept in the bush in Katsina State.
I have been doing that for one year. Before joining this, I was a herdsman. It
was from herding cows that I was invited to be guarding kidnapped victims by
one of the commanders.”
He said he was recruited into the
kidnap ring when he approached one of the commanders to inform him that he was
looking for a job after losing his cows to rustlers.
Haruna added that he was trained
to handle guns, noting that he was given a military camouflage uniform in his
new role as a guard.
Asked how many people he killed
in the last one year while working as a kidnapper, Haruna said: “ In God’s name, I have lost count because I don’t
keep a record of the people I kill but I know they are many”.
He, however, said on the day he
was arrested, he had already killed three people within the interval of three
days.
Asked why he killed them, he said
his superiors told him that if the kidnap victims were not killed, they would
kill him.
“Even when I didn’t want to kill
them, I was always afraid because it could amount to disobeying the directive
of my boss. I might even be killed,” he said.
He added that amongst the
kidnappers, there was a sheik in charge of preparing corpses for burial
according to Islamic rites.
“The mallam will prepare them according
to Islamic rites, pray for their souls and we will bury them properly,” he
said.
He said though he was married
with a child, his wife was not aware of his criminal activities because he
never disclosed them to her.
The suspect said the military uniform
he wore and the arms he carried were provided by his bosses.
He said he knew what he was doing
was bad but he was afraid of leaving them because he would have been killed.
Asked what his appeal to
government and the police was, he said if he regained freedom, he would join
hands with the police to fish out other kidnappers since he knew their modus
operandi and where they are based.
It would be recalled that Haruna
was earlier paraded on June 3, 2019, by the police as one of those arrested by
the Police Special Tactical Team (STS) led by Deputy Commissioner of Police,
DCP Kolo and IGP’s Intelligence Response Team (IRT) commanded by DCP Abba Kyari.
The arrests were in pursuant to
Operation Puff Adder launched to hunt kidnappers, bandits, cattle rustlers, and
armed robbers.
During the parade, some of the
suspects were alleged to have smuggled thousands of rifles and ammunition into
Nigeria from Libya and Burkina Faso through Benin Republic and Niger
Republic. 6000 Rounds of Ak47 ammunition
and several Ak47 rifles and pistols were recovered.
The suspects confessed to
importing and selling rifles and ammunition to kidnappers, armed robbers and
other criminals in Nigeria.
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