The Kano State Police command on Wednesday, paraded four suspected kidnappers among them 23-year-old Maryam Mohammed alias Hajiya, who is believed to be the mastermind of the crime.
Njenje Media News reports that Maryam was arrested last week Tuesday, with three other members of her gang at Ungogo LGA, Kano state in the process of negotiating with the family of one of their captives.
In her confession, she said that her first operation as a kidnapper started with her ex-boyfriend who refused to marry her after years of courtship.
In her words;
“I was introduced into kidnapping by my uncle called Hamza and the first person we kidnapped was my ex-boyfriend who refused to marry me despite my efforts to get him convinced during our years of courtship.
“After he had dumped me, my uncle asked me to bring him so that we could hold him until he pays money before we could release him. When we kidnapped him, his family paid N5m to secure his freedom and out of that amount I was given N800,000 with which I rented that house at Jaba quarters,” Hajiya confessed.
