An ex-convict,
Hammed Mohammed, has revealed how he masterminded the kidnap of a medical
doctor, Tunde Abdulrahman and shot him dead in July 2016.
The incident
was reported to the Kwara Police Command and the Department of State Security,
DSS, in the state, following which his stolen mobile phones were traced to the
home of a security guard working in his father’s house.
Abdulrahman,
was until his death attached to the Omu-Aran General Hospital in Irepodun Local
Government Area of Kwara State.
He was
abducted by three armed men who stormed his father’s house, located in Tenke
area of Ilorin and taken away in his Toyota Corolla saloon car.
The security
guard, Mohammed Jamiu, who had worked with the Abdulrahman’s for more than ten
years was subsequently arrested by the police, while investigations eventually
revealed that his son, Hammed, an ex-convict, masterminded the abduction of the
late medical doctor.
On sensing
that policemen were closing in on him, Hammed, according to police sources fled
to Sokoto, where he stayed for four months before returning to Kwara in
November 2016, where he was arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of
Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT led by the Assistant
Commissioner of Police (ACP) Abba Kyari.
It was learnt
that Abdulrahman’s bereaved family had earlier forwarded a petition to the
Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, asking for the police chief to help
unravel those responsible for their son’s abduction.
IRT’s
operatives were said to have trailed Hammed to a hideout in Omu-Aran, where he
had regrouped with two other robbery suspects terrorizing Kwara State, Olusho
Rotimi and Ayo Ayeni.
Hammed was
said to have confessed during interrogation that he orchestrated, participated
in the abduction and killing of Abdulrahman, but he declined to show the IRT
operatives where he buried the corpse of the medical doctor.
A police
source told The Nation that Hammed led detectives to arrest several innocent
persons who had no connection with the case. It was gathered that he falsely
alleged that a rich man in the Shagamu area of Ogun State had bought
Abdulrahman’s corpse from him for N400,000, while he also deceitfully led
detectives to a forest in Kwara State, where he showed them some bones and said
they were the remains of Dr. Abdulrahman.
It however
emerged they were cow bones after they were taken for autopsy.
In a bid to
arrest other fleeing members of his gang, Hammed also led detectives to Ijebu
Ode where a 24-year-old car snatcher, who had no link with the kidnapping was
arrested.
Confessing his
complicity in the crime, Hammed said: "I started crime as a car snatcher
and I stole several cars from their owners within Kwara and Oyo States, but I
was arrested in 2015 and taken to prison where I spent more than one year.
While in prison I had two close friends, Yemi and Dayo and when we were
released we had nothing to do, hence, Dayo suggested that we should go into
kidnapping and I suggested we should kidnap the son of my father’s boss, who is
a medical doctor. It was Dayo who brought the guns we used in abducting the
doctor (Abdulrahman) from his father’s house.
My father
wasn’t on duty when I came and I was outside, Dayo and Yemi went in and
abducted and covered his (Abdulrahman) face. We took him out in his car and we
drove him into a forest by Oke-Olowo and we had an argument and Abdulraman’s
face got opened and he saw me and called my name. He threatened to deal with me
when he is out and I shot him. He didn’t die instantly, we took him to a spot
within the forest and dumped him.
I took his car
away and I sold it to one Alhaji for N280000. I also took his phones with me.
One month after we killed him, operatives of DSS came to our house in Oke-Ose
and they arrested my father. I ran to Sokoto State and I worked as an auto
mechanic and when I exhausted all the money I had with me. I came back to Kwara
State to form a new gang. I don’t know how the police knew I was back in town
and they trailed and arrested me. I had no plan to kill the doctor but I was
left with no choice when he identified me.”
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