Their Leader Shot Himself, They Thought He Had Died And They Angrily Killed All The Victims-Ogbeide

Operatives of the Police Force Intelligence Department's Special Tactical Squad (FID STS) have arrested two key members of a kidnapping syndicate who killed their victims even after ransom were paid.

ACP Victor Ogbeide, Commander of the FID STS, disclosed in an interview with Arise TV that the gang murdered all their hostages after their leader, Buhari Adamu accidentally shot himself with an AK-47 and they believed he had died from the wound. "We found out that one of the suspects who is presumed to be their leader had sustained a gunshot injury to his leg. 

Prior to that, he had injured himself when he accidentally shot himself with his AK-47. They thought he had died from the injury. And with that realization, they angrily killed all their victims and threw their bodies into a nearby stream," he said.

The arrests led the police to the gang's hideout, a remote camp concealed among the rocky hills of Bagalapi, where victims had been held. 

Officers recovered an AK-47 rifle and 22 rounds of live ammunition hidden beneath a rock, along with 14 cows and three sheep believed to be proceeds from the syndicate's criminal operations.

The police vowed to continue the pursuit of every interstate kidnapping syndicate until they are brought to justice, describing the dismantling of such networks as a core mandate of the FID Special Tactical Squad.