The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has confirmed the arrest of one Bello Mohammed, a suspected bandit said to have confessed to killing Nabeeha, a 400-level student of Biological Science, Ahmadu Bello University.
Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday.
Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar was one of six sisters abducted alongside their father, Mansur, on January 2 from Sagwari Estate Layout in the Dutsen-Alhaji area in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory.
Mansur was later freed by the abductors so that he could arrange the ransom to secure his daughters’ freedom.
However, Nabeeha was killed two weeks later following her family’s inability to raise the ransom demand.
The five remaining girls later regained their freedom.
Adejobi said that Mohammed, 28, an indigene of Zamfara State, was arrested in Kaduna State on January 20.
“The Divisional Police Officer, Tafa Division, acting on intelligence, raided one hotel in Tafa Area, Kaduna, where he arrested Bello, with the sum of N2.25 million only, suspected to be proceeds of ransoms collected from kidnapped victims within the area.
“The suspect, during interrogation, confessed to be part of the gang that kidnapped the family members of one Barrister Ariyo in Bwari, FCT, on 2nd January 2024, and killed some kidnapped victims, including Nabeeha, f, daughter of the legal practitioner, on 13th January, 2024, in a kidnappers camp, in Kaduna State,” the police spokesman said.
Adejobi said that the suspect, in a dramatic turn of events, offered N1 million to induce the DPO, who rejected the offer and carried out his duty diligently.
“The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, Ph.D., NPM, has ordered that the suspect, who also confessed to the involvement of the already five (5) neutralized bandits in Kaduna by the IRT, headed by one Mai Gemu (aka Godara), whose deadly camp has also been destroyed, be handed over to the DFI-IRT in Abuja for discreet investigations into the matter and arrest of all other culprits responsible for the dastardly act. The suspect is currently helping the police in their investigations.
“While commending the DPO Tafa, SP Idris Ibrahim, for the commitment and professionalism displayed in the case, he further assured that the Police would leave no stone unturned in decimating criminally minded individuals and bequeathing to Nigerians a more secure society for all and sundry in our dear country, Nigeria,” Adejobi added.