On December 16, 2022, at around 1400 hours in Kano, Alhaji Bamuwa Umaru, “m,” 62, of Shika town, Sabon Gari LGA, Kaduna State, approached Superintendent of Police (SP) Aliyu Mohammed, Officer in Charge of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad, State Criminal Investigation Department, Kano State Police Command, and offered him one million naira (N1,000,000:00) as a bribe to secure the release of Yusuf Ibrahim,
Yusuf Ibrahim was apprehended by the Police team of Operation Restore Peace after he was identified by a driver they kidnapped along Funtuwa-Gusau Road, according to Superintendent of Police Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, the Police Public Relations Officer Kano State Command. They demanded the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500,000:00) in ransom before he was released. Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect had admitted to the police of his crime as well as having taken part in a string of kidnappings in the villages of Sheme, Yankara, Faskari, and Kucheri in the states of Katsina and Zamfara, respectively. He further admitted that he was the only one who killed two of the victims, while the other members of the syndicate killed roughly ten (10) of the victims they kidnapped. After the inquiry is over, the suspects will be charged in court.
The good people of Kano State, other security agencies, the media, vigilante groups, and the command’s community policing stakeholders are appreciated for their prayers, support, encouragement, and cooperation, according to CP Mamman Dauda, the commissioner of police for the Kano State Command.