Crime
Sule transports passengers straight into kidnapper ambush, then returns, repeats method
Bashir Sule is not your regular kidnapper. He’s nonetheless steeped into the criminal enterprise of kidnap for ransom.
His territory is Kano, along the Janguza and ijin Zaki areas, in the vicinity of Bayero University, where the largest population of students in the northwest reside.
The Force spokesperson, CP Frank Mba disclosed that the suspect was arrested after the police received credible intelligence exposing his modus operandi.
The 25-year-old criminal could either pose as a driver or passenger, driving the victim to agreed locations where his gang laid ambush—or joing others on board and giving them away.
“After picking passengers or in a commercial vehicle, I secretly sent signals to colleague kidnappers to ambush the vehicle in some routes,” he said.
Sule was paraded alongside others at the Force headquarters on Tuesday.
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