I killed my victims, drank their blood – Kidnap kingpin, Umar open up

A 25-year-old Fulani kidnap kingpin, identified as Ibrahim Umar, has confessed how he killed his victims including soldiers and drank their blood.

Umar was paraded among 15 others by the Nigerian Police in Abuja on Tuesday.

He said he had not only killed over ten of his kidnapped victims in recent times but also drank their blood.

He equally disclosed that he hunts and kills soldiers to get their arms and uniforms for operations whenever he was in need of the items.

What stands Umar’s kidnap gang out among many others across the country is that it kills the victims even after collecting ransom from their families.

Umar, a vicious and notorious kidnap-for-ransom/armed robbery kingpin, said he has been in the business for over two years now.

He was arrested alongside his three gang members in the forest and towns along Abuja-Kaduna, and Abuja-Suleja-Minna Highway by men of the F- SARS Special Tactical Squad attached to Operation Absolute Sanity.

He told journalists at Sabon Wuse Divisional Office of the Nigeria Police Force, venue of the parade, that he had made fortunes worth several millions of naira from the atrocities he carried out along the highway for the past two years.

The arms and ammunition recovered from the the gang included five AK47 riffles, 1596 7.62 X 39mm AK47 ammunition, two sword & cutlasses, four pairs of suspected fake military uniform and mobile phones.

Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Jimoh Moshood, who paraded the suspects before newsmen, gave their names as Mohammadu Auta a.k.a Babawuro, 27 years old, Musa Usman, 25 years old and Abdullahi Abubakar, who is 28 years old.