Suspected kidnapper speaks on why he killed Seminarian, Nnadi

The arrested leader of a kidnap gang, Mustapha Mohammed, also known as Mairutuwa, has spoken on why he killed a Catholic seminarian, Michael Nnadi, of the Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna state in January 2020.

Mohammed, whose gang allegedly abducted and killed Nnadi after collecting ransom from the seminary school, said he killed him because he was always preaching about Jesus.

It would be recalled that armed men had stormed the Seminary on January 9 and kidnapped four seminarians, murdered one of them and released the remaining three on January 31 after they received a ransom from the seminary.

The corpse of Nnadi, 18 as at the time, was found in a bush on February 2nd while he was buried on February 11th.

Mohammed, while speaking to reporters, said from the day Nnadi was abducted, he kept preaching the gospel of Jesus to him and told him to his face to change his evil ways or perish.

He further revealed that the late Nnadi did not allow him to have peace as he continued preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to him even when he knew they were not of the same faith, adding that he did not like the confidence displayed by Nnadi and so he decided to kill him.

Mustapha who is currently in police custody with two other members of his gang, disclosed further that they decided to invade the school because they knew it was a seminary and that they would make good money.

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According to him, they got information about the seminary from a gang member who is a commercial motorcycle operator and lives very close to the school.

He further revealed that they conducted proper surveillance on the school for five days before they carried out the operation.

He said they had to use the mobile telephone number of the deceased Nnadi, to put a call across to the school authorities to demand a N100 million ransom which was later reduced to N10 million paid by the school authorities for the release of the three seminarians.

Mustapha also said they forced the school authorities to buy recharge cards of various networks to the tune of N30,000, which they brought to the spot where they had agreed to collect the ransom.

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