Adelani Adepegba, AbujaA suspected kidnapper, Abubakar Umar, has said he and his colleagues collected over N200m in ransom in the last six months. Umar stated that they preferred abducting expatriates from whom he had collected millions of naira in ransom. The suspect, who was paraded in Abuja on Wednesday alongside 37 other suspects, explained that he once collected N100m cash in a kidnap operation. During one of the operations, we collected N100m in ransom. “I participated in six kidnap operations.

Source: Punch June 20, 2019 00:22 UTC