From Desmond Mgboh, Kano

Kano State Police Command have arrested a 62 year old man, Bamuwa Umaru, for attempting to bribe its officers to release a suspected kidnapper.

The suspect had approached the Officer in Charge of the Anti-kidnapping Squad of the Command, SP Aliyu Mohammed, with the sum of N1 million bribe, with a view to secure the release of 27 year Yusuf Ibrahim who was arrested at Rijiyar Zaki Motor Park Kano for his involvement in a series of kidnapping operations in Katina ans Zamfara State.

A statement by Police Public Relations Officer, Kano State, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, Tuesday, explained that Yusuf was arrested at the park by a team of Operation Restore Peace, led by CSP Usman Abdullahi, after he was identified by a driver, who was kidnapped along Funtuwa-Gusau Road and whom they

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collected a ransom of N500,000 for his freedom.

According to the police, the suspect, in the course of preliminary investigation, had confessed to the crime, including admitting to have participated in a series of kidnappings that took place in Sheme, Yankara, Faskari and Kucheri villages in Katsina and Zamfara State.

The statement said that he also confessed to belonging to a syndicate that killed about 10 kidnapped victims in their custody, admitting that he alone killed two of them.

The statement said that both suspects will be charged to court upon completion of the investigation.