Two convicts described as notorious kidnappers Sani Mohammed and Babannan Saleh (alias Ustaz) have been sentenced to death by hanging by the Jigawa State High Court, having earlier been arrested in June 2021 and prosecuted with others now at large.
Penpushing reports that the convicts with others, still on the run had abducted one Hamidan Abdu of Shangel village in Ringim Local Government Area and others for ransom, facing seven counts which include abduction, criminal conspiracy, robbery, culpable homicide, and house trespass
The court sentenced them to death by hanging for the offence of abduction, punishable under Section 27 of the Violence Against Person (Prohibitions) law No. 2 of Jigawa State, 2021, also sentenced them to life imprisonment for robbery, which is punishable under Section 298 of the Penal Code, Cap 3 law of Jigawa State, 2012.
Penpushing further reports that the duo in same vein, received three years in prison for criminal conspiracy, which is punishable under Section 97 of the Violence Against Person (prohibitions) law No. 2 of Jigawa State, 2021.
The Jigawa State judiciary spokesperson, Abbas Wangara, in a statement said the suspects robbed Abdu of an unspecified amount of money and abducted him to Kotoro Fulani settlement in Fagen-gawo town of Garki Local Government Area.
Penpushing also reports that Wangara added that the criminals received a ransom of N20 million before releasing the suspect along the Gujungu—Hadejia road in the state, explaining that the duo together with others now at large, attacked one Eze Emmanuel in his shop at Kore village in Danbatta Local Government Area of Kano State.
The judicial spokesperson stated that they robbed the victim of an unspecified amount of money, and in similar development abducted Emmanuel and received a ransom of N14,650,000 before releasing him.
Penpushing reports that the court also convicted the second defendant 40-yeaar-old Saleh, popularly called Ustaz, a resident of Dumfidawa Fulani camp in Mallam-Madori local government area of another charge of culpable homicide, abduction, criminal conspiracy, and trespass.
The prosecution, told the court that Saleh together with others now at large, in 2021 abducted one Abdullahi Jarma of Maigatari town and demanded N100 million from his family as ransom.
“After a series of negotiations, the family of the abducted person sourced N2.5 million and gave the money to one Ahmed Nadabo to deliver to them for the release of Jarma, but they shot and killed Nadabo with a gun at the point of delivering the ransom’, Wangara said
Penpushing further reports that the syndicate also went ahead to Taura town, Taura local government area and abducted one Kabiru Taura for whom they demanded N20 million as ransom, while Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Bello Fanini, disclosed that the convicts were members of a syndicate that terrorised the state until they were arrested, adding that they masterminded almost all kidnappings for ransom in the state until their arrest in 2021.
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