Two Suspects, Kamilu Ali and Abdullahi Mohammed have been remanded in prison custody for alleged kidnapping and cattle rustling in 9 Local Government Areas of Adamawa and Taraba States respectively.
Honourable Justice Nathan Musa, of the State High Court I remanded the duo after they were arraigned separately before the Court for alleged conspiracy to commit kidnapping and cattle rustling in the 2 States.
Ali, 40, and an indigene of Numan Local Government Area was apprehended in Ngurore for kidnapping and cattle rustling in Yola South, Demsa, Mayo Belwa, Numan, Jada, Ganye, Toungo in Adamawa and Bali LGA in Taraba State.
The defendant who was alleged to be a serial cattle rustler for a period of 10 years, was said to have rustled more than 200 cattle in the the affected Adamawa LGAs and presently owns 10 heads of cattle.
NEWS PLATFORM gathered in court that himself and 11 others (now at large) in March, 2020 abducted a man at Jatau village in Bali LGA in Taraba state and collected the sum of N400, 000. ransom from the family of the victim out of which he benefited the sum of N30, 000.
In another operation, the defendant and 8 others (now at large) while armed with firearms, cutlasses and sticks, stormed Bille community in Demsa LGA and kidnapped one Alhaji, and later released him after receiving the sum of N1million from his family as ransom and out of which he got N50, 000 as his own share.
Ali who appeared before court limping, was alleged to have been shot on the leg at Ngurore by the operatives of the Department of Security Service(DSS) when he attempted to resist lawful arrest.
While Abdullahi Mohammed, 27, of Sabere village in Yola South LGA, and 2 others (now at large) on the 30th January, 2020, at Mararaba Dumne, in Song LGA, abducted one Julius Danjuma, and held him in Dumne mauntains for 7 days until his family paid the sum of N370, 000 as ransom before releading him.
But at the mentioning of the cases as prayed by the Counsel to the Prosecution, M. A. Adamu (Senior State Counsel 2), both defendants denied committing ther crime.
Thereafter, the court presided by Justice Nathan Musa, adjourned the cases to the 13th July, 2021 for commencement of trial and ordered that the defendants be remanded at a correctional center till then.
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