The Kaduna Police Command
has reacted to the killing of a man suspected to be one of the kidnappers along
Kawo Kaduna Monday morning, disclosing that the angry mob were misled by one
Alhaji Musa to lynch, murder and set ablaze a driver alongside his vehicle in
Kawo axis of the metropolis.
DAILY POST recalls a report
in the media that residents of Kawo-Kaduna had yesterday morning blocked the
road and lynched a man following the alarm raised by one Alhaji Musa that three
persons tried to kidnap him.
Reacting Tuesday morning,
the Kaduna Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Yakubu Sabo, said that
three other people were rescued from the angry mob through joint efforts of
policemen reinforced with army personnel.
According to DSP Sabo, one
Alhaji Musa, who was granted bail for a case of fraud in Lagos while attempting
to escape justice, raised false alarm, prompting the mob to lynch the visitors
who came in from Lagos at about 8:30am on May 20, 2019.
“Some operatives from Lagos
Command came in respect of one Alhaji Musa in a fraud case. They came with some
sureties who stood for bail for him in Lagos. They tried to come for him to
come to Lagos for his case but he was evading justice so they came looking for
him in Kaduna.
“While the Police where
putting together their papers, the three friends or sureties decided to track
and put a tab on him. They met him and told him to follow them but he refused
and decided to take his children to school.
“He raised false alarm that
they were kidnappers while trailing him, that was how the driver trapped in the
vehicle was lynched. One of them was wounded in the head and fell into gutter,
the other two escaped and were sheltered in a filling station.
“The police came later and
rescued them but were resisted by the thugs who became agitated so the police
had to use force.
“The police is saddled with
protection of lives, and will not hand over suspects to mobs to lynch.
“The police didn’t do this
alone, they were reinforced with the army and subsequently evacuated the
suspects.
“One is receiving treatment
in the hospital, while the other two are okay and have even given statement
concerning the issue, alongside policemen that accompanied them from Lagos,” he
explained.
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