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How Bandits Negotiated Multi-Million Naira Ransom For Emir Of Bugundu

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Bandits Negotiated

Household sources mentioned bandits refused to launch the Emir of Bungudu after amassing N20 million, till they received extra money.

Armed bandits collected a multi-million naira ransom earlier than they launched the Emir of Bungudu in Zamfara State, Hassan Attahiru, household sources have mentioned.

The bandits efficiently negotiated the ransom with emirate officers regardless of the shutdown of telecommunications within the state. The ransom included a primary cost of N20 million, after which the bandits refused to launch the emir till they got extra money.

The Emir of Bungudu was kidnapped on the Kaduna-Abuja freeway whereas travelling to Abuja. The Bungudu Emirate Council on Monday introduced that he had returned house, 32 days after his kidnap.

The emir was kidnapped two weeks earlier than the Kaduna State authorities requested telecommunications companies to droop their providers in a part of the state from September 30.

The measure, which was geared toward checking the actions of bandits, was additionally adopted by the governments of Zamfara, Katsina and Sokoto states.

Nevertheless, the absence of telecommunications providers in Kaduna briefly disrupted the negotiation and delayed the discharge of the emir.

Household sources instructed PREMIUM TIMES that negotiation started earlier than the reduce of telecommunications networks in components of Kaduna State however continued afterwards till the emir was launched.

The supply mentioned following the networks’ shutdown, the bandits moved to areas the place they may entry cell telecommunications providers and continued urgent their calls for.

Nevertheless, they may not join the monarch together with his family members and officers on cellphone as they often did once they might entry providers from their strongholds.

“We stopped talking with the emir on the cellphone after the federal government introduced the networks’ shutdown in sure areas, till he ultimately regained freedom,” one of many relations who spoke to this newspaper, mentioned.

How ransom was delivered

The sources mentioned the bearer of the N20 million initially paid rode on a motorbike for about three hours from Rigachikum city to the forest and trekked for one more hour with the bag containing the cash

“Then, communication between the ransom bearer and the bandits broke with the bandits’ cellphone numbers not accessible, so the ransom bearer returned to Kaduna with the cash. Nevertheless, upon his arrival in Kaduna, the bandits referred to as and requested him to return to the forest with the cash.

When the ransom bearer moved additional into the forest, he was requested to park his motorbike at a sure place. The bandits had been calling to provide him course till he delivered the ransom in a thicker forest lined by creeks,” the supply mentioned.

N20 million not sufficient

The supply mentioned after amassing N20 million from the ransom bearer, the abductors refused to launch the monarch, demanding extra money.

“The abductors had demanded a N100 million ransom. The negotiation was occurring when the networks had been reduce in components of Kaduna.

The second ransom cost was additionally large however I can not verify the quantity.

Following the intervention of Miyetti Allah and others, the bandits agreed to free the monarch. However extra ransom was paid,” the supply mentioned.

“Upon his launch, the emir trekked for about three hours within the forest earlier than reaching a spot the place he was picked with a motorbike and dropped at the place automobiles had been parked ready for his.

Bandits Negotiated

Bandits Negotiated

Bandits Negotiated

Bandits Negotiated