Kidnap Kingpin Wadume Exposes Army Captain, Others On His Payroll

Hamisu Bala, aka Wadume, a suspected kidnap kingpin in Taraba State, who was arrested recently by the Police, has confessed that he sent a huge amount of money to an Army captain who eventually coordinated his release from the police operatives.

YaahooJournalist learned that Wadume paid the money into the army captain’s bank account about three weeks ago.

The confession is coming after the Police had made the shocking revelation that some soldiers of the Nigerian Army opened fire on the Police operatives who had gone to Ibi, Taraba state, northern Nigeria, to arrest Wadume, killing some officers and a civilian in the process.

However, the army in its response claimed that the battalion mistook the operatives for kidnappers before opening fire on them.

YaahooJournalist reports that the arrested Wadume was eventually set free in the ensuing saga before he was re-arrested in the late hours of Monday in his hideout at Layin Mai Allo Hotoro area of Kano State, northern Nigeria.

Wadume was said to have disclosed to detectives that the soldiers took him to the barracks, from where the Captain allegedly took him to his house, before a welder was invited to cut off the chains on his hand and leg and then he escaped.

A source privy to the investigation revealed that: “He has made so many revelations. A lot of things have been said that I don’t want to talk about to avoid jeopardising ongoing investigations. It is a huge network and so many people are involved.

“I can tell you that he confessed to have paid huge money into the Captain’s bank account three weeks ago and that he usually gave each checkpoint N20,000 each time he passed.”