KADUNA: I Married New Wife After Supplying Bread To Bandits, Kidnapped Students – Suspect

A baker recently arrested by the intelligence response team of the Nigeria Police Force said he sold bread worth more than N70,000 to bandits in Kaduna State.

Hassan Magaji was arrested at the Galadimawa area of Kaduna.

Magaji said he sold the bread to the bandits when some university students were abducted, but he did not disclose the particular kidnap incident.

“I observed that whenever they kidnapped many people, like during the kidnap of those university students, the quantity of bread that they bought increased.

“During that period, I delivered up to N70,000 worth of bread every day until recently when it dropped to N50,000 again.

“I have not benefited much except that I married a new wife and I was able to save money to take care of two wives.

“To stop banditry, the government should recruit more security men. We prefer police because they know the job,” Daily Trust quoted the suspect to have said.

Kaduna state has witnessed the abduction of no fewer than 70 students and workers of tertiary institutions in the state.

From the abduction of students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Afaka to the Greenfield University in Chikun Local Government Area (LGA), and the recent kidnap in the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in Zaria, various armed groups have continued to spread their horns across the state.

On Saturday, angry residents had reportedly blocked the Abuja-Kaduna highway to protest incessant attacks in Anguwar Magaji in Chikun LGA of the state.

Reports said residents of the state had protested the killing of a 13-year-old girl by bandits and the abduction of the village head whose family as well as other persons were kidnapped.