Police Arrest Killers Of Kaduna Catholic Seminarian, Doctor’s Wife

A criminal gang, said to be 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, have been arrested by police operatives.

The criminal gang had on January 9, 2020, stormed the Catholic Seminary and kidnapped four (4) seminarians, murdered one of them in cold blood and released the remaining three on 31st January, 2020, having obtained a ransom. The remains of the fourth Seminarian were found in a bush.

A statement issued on Sunday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, gave the names of the suspects as 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.

The statement said the suspects, all from Igabi LGA of kaduna state, were arrested after “several months of intensive and extensive intelligence-led operations by crack detectives of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT).”

According to the statement, discreet investigations so far revealed that the arrested suspects were part of a 19-man gang that also carried out the kidnap of one Phillip Ataga’s wife and two daughters on January 24, 2020 at Juji Community in Chikun LGA of the 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,” the statement reads briefly.

“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 statement reads.

Furthermore, the statement, added that, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu, while reiterating that the force would remain unrelenting in ensuring that crimes across the country are reduced to the barest minimum, assured the nation that the force would not rest until the other members of the gang also responsible for the above crimes, but currently on the run, were apprehended and brought to book.