Police Arrest Three Over Kidnap/Murder Of Seminarian – IGP

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By Adesina Soyooye

Here is the heart-warming news.

The Spirit of young Seminarian, Michael  Nnadi,  will now, finally, rest in peace. His innocent blood has haunted down those who kidnapped him, and murdered him in cold blood.

According to the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, “Operatives have arrested the 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, Kakau in Chikun LGA of Kaduna State.”

On January 9, 2020, the the gang had stormed the Catholic Seminary and kidnapped four Seminarians.They  murdered  Nnadi,  and released the remaining three on 31^st January, 2020, having obtained a ransom.  Nnadi’s body was found in the bush were found in a bush where it was abandoned.

The  arrested suspects, according to a Press Release by the Force Public Relations Officer,  DCP Frank Mba, are: Tukur Usman ‘m’ aged 37, father of 7, Shehu Bello ‘m’ aged 40, father of 5 and Mustapha Mohammed ‘m’ aged 30, father of 1, all of Igabi LGA of Kaduna State. Mba: “They were arrested after several months of intensive and extensive intelligence-led operations by crack detectives of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT).”

The same gang also killed  the wife of Dr Philip Ataga, for resisting to submit to a sexual intercourse. Mrs Ataga and two of her daughters were kidnapped from their residence at the Juju Community, on January 24th, 2020.

Explaining how they were arrested, Mba said: “Discreet investigations so far reveal that the arrested suspects are part of a 19-man gang that also carried out the kidnap of Dr Phillip Ataga’s wife and two daughters on January 24, 2020 at Juji Community in Chikun LGA of Kaduna State.

“Mrs Ataga was killed by the gang following her heroic resistance to the despicable and inhuman attempt by the leader of the gang to rape her. The suspects after killing her released the daughters and corpse of the slain woman to the family after collecting ransom.

“Further investigations reveal that the same criminal gang is responsible for the kidnap of six students and two teachers of Engravers College, Chikun LGA, Kaduna, from their school premises on October 3, 2019.

“The suspects, known to belong to a hybrid terrorist criminal network causing untold havoc in North-Central, Nigeria, 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.”

The remaining gang members, the IGP assures, will be be haunted down.