Operatives of the Nigerian Police Force have arrested a deadly criminal gang responsible for the kidnap and murder of a Catholic Seminarian, Nnadi Michael of the Catholic Good Shepherd Major Seminary at Gonin Gora, Kaduna State.
On January 9, this year, the criminal gang stormed the Catholic Seminary and kidnapped four seminarians, murdered one of them in cold blood and released the remaining three on 31st January after they had collected their ransom.
In a statement signed by Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, the suspects are Tukur Usman 37, who is a father of 7, Shehu Bello 40, who is a father of 5 and Mustapha Mohammed 30, a father of 1, all of Igabi LGA of Kaduna State.
He said they were arrested after several months of intensive and extensive intelligence-led operations by crack detectives of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT).
According to Mba, discreet investigations so far reveal that the arrested suspects were part of a 19-man gang that also carried out the kidnap of Dr Phillip Ataga’s wife and two daughters on January 24, at Juji Community in Chikun, Kaduna State.
He said investigation revealed that the same criminal gang was responsible for the kidnap of six students and two teachers of Engravers College, Chikun Kaduna State, in October 3, 2019.
He said the suspects belonged to a hybrid terrorist criminal network causing untold havoc in North-Central and have confessed to several other random operations along Abuja-Kaduna expressway where they kidnapped, killed and robbed motorists, collecting ransom and valuables running into millions of naira.
