Bandits Kill DPO For Arresting Their Members In Bauchi

Bauchi State Police Command has arrested four members of a notorious bandit group, who confessed to having killed a former police DPO of the Tafawa Balewa Division, CSP Garkuwa.

The suspects were arrest­ed by the operatives of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) led by a Deputy Inspec­tor General of Police, Ola­tuniji Disu after painstaking and diligent investigations into high-level murder, kid­napping and armed robbery operations in Bauchi State.

The notorious bandits, Hashimu Galadima a.k.a Kan Wuka, Abduwahab Abdulhassan a.k.a Emeka, Alhaji Hamidu Saleh and Abdulwahab Ahmed a.k.a Dan.

A police source, who pleaded anonymity said that “Our men have arrest­ed three members of a very deadly and notorious gang of gunmen in Dass Local Government area of Bauchi State. We are on the trail of other members of the gang.”

The police source stated that: “They have confessed to taking parts in different killings, kidnappings and armed robbery incidents in Bauchi. They killed a serv­ing member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly and abducted three of his family members. They were also responsible for the kill­ing of a former DPO of Ta­fawa Balewa Division, CSP Garkuwa.”

The leader of the gang, 48 years old, Hashimu aka Kan-Wuka, and a native of Galvan Village in Bakari-Ba­gel district of Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State, in his confession said it was his gang that killed the late Hon. Mante, who was representing Dass Local Gov­ernment in the Bauchi State House of Assembly.

He also confessed to having participated in differ­ent high-level crimes. He, however, stated that it was a member of his gang, Ab­dulwahab Alhassan that masterminded the killing of the lawmaker. “I was first arrested for a case of crim­inal conspiracy, armed rob­bery and kidnapping at Dass Divisional Police Station. The case was transferred to the Bauchi State Criminal Investigations Department and I was charged to court. The court found me guilty and I was sentenced to two years imprisonment.

“After I finished my pun­ishment from the prison at Bauch Central Prison, I continued my criminal ac­tivities. Other members of my gang are Yalura, Shagari Wakai, Ibrahim and Abdul­hassan Abdulwahab.

“My gang killed Honour­able Mante and kidnapped three of his family mem­bers. He offended me but I am not the only one that he offended. He used to give people money but he never gave me. That is why I don’t like him. I have begged him for money many times. He did not give me but he was giving other people money.”

The gang leader also stat­ed that “I did not want to kill him but Abdulhassan told me that he also hated the honourable and we should kill him. It was even Abdul­hassan that facilitated how we located him and gained entrance into his house.”

On the killing of the DPO, the gang leader said “It was all of us that hated the DPO. When he was the DPO of Ta­fawa Balewa police station, he was always giving us a tough time. He was arrest­ing our members and pre­venting us from operating in that area.”

Another member of the gang, Alhassan also con­fessed to be a member of the gang. He, however, claimed that he did not follow them to his house for the opera­tion and that he only pro­vided the gang with infor­mation.