Confession of killer herdsmen

The last may not have been heard about the activities and exploits of the suspected Fulani herdsmen who have been terrorising travellers on Kaduna-Abuja expressway before they (herdsmen) were captured recently. Some of the arrested suspects include Adamu Mamman, Shehu Idris, Ali Robo, Amodu Awwalu, Babangida Abdulahi, Shaibu Ibrahim and Isha Musa.

At the police station where they were kept pending arraignment in court, Saturday Sun had the opportunity of talking to some of them. Robo, who hails from Kaduna admitted witnessing the execution of a police officer who attempted to overpower them.

“In one of the operations, we mistakenly kidnapped a police officer,” he recalled. “But it was when he tried to overpower us and snatch one of the guns that we knew that he could be a security man. Luckily he did not succeed, so we killed him and threw his body into the bush, far from our hideout.”

Mamman 30, who hails from Angwa, Katsina State, and who claimed to have joined the gang in 2016 some years after his graduation from an Arabic school in 2013, appeared to be the most experienced of the suspects. In the interview.

The man, one-time farmer and herdsman, claimed to have been introduced to armed robbery and kidnapping by one Hussein popularly known as Blacky.
Sun, September 9, 2017

 

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