Three kidnappers – Abubakar Gide, Abdullahi Salihu and Babuga Adamu – have been arrested in connection to the murder of a top management staff of Dangote Group, Bello Istifanus Gurama. The suspects however claimed they murdered him because he wanted to cheat them out of N14.4 million. The suspects told VANGUARD in an interview that Gurama, who acted as a liaison between the company and them, while negotiating for the release of four expatriates and a Nigerian was ongoing, had wanted to short-pay them.One of the suspects, Abuldlahi Sani, disclosed that it was one of his colleagues, Babuga Adamu, who was also a herdsman that organised the operation. He said Babuga reared his cattle around Eyin Osun village in Ijebu-Igbo, where the Dangote’s site was located, adding that he was the one who called him and eight others for the operation.
According to Sani, “After we kidnapped the white men working at Dangote’s site, they gave us numbers to reach their wives and their company representative. We called their wives and the company and made a demand of N30 million ransom. They told us that they will get back to us. Bello (Gurama) called us the next day and told us that the company was ready to pay us N3 million and if we don’t accept, we should kill the white men. The next day, we called the company representative and he refused to pick his calls and we also called the wives of the white men and their lines were all switched off. We did that for two days.
“On the third day, the man we killed picked his call and told us that the company was ready to pay N5 million. We told him that we will accept N10 million. He called back and said the company had decided to increase our money to N5.6 million. While we were still negotiating, one of the white men asked us to call his wife and luckily her line went through. She told her husband that Dangote asked that we should be paid N20 million, but that the man negotiating with us asked them to switch off their phones so that we could not reach them. At that point, we became angry and decided to lure the man (Gurama) to our camp. We called the man and told him that we have accepted the offer and told him where to bring the money.
“When he brought the money, we took him to the camp where we kept the white men. We told him that we will not kill the white men, but will kill him if he does not release the balance of the N20 million Dangote asked him to give to us. He refused, switched off his phone and refused to contact his company or his family. For three days, we begged him to contact his family and he still refused. When we became tired and were ready to leave the camp, our leaders Alti, Mudani and Kabiru, took him to Apoje River, shot him and dumped him in the river. We shared the money and I got N150,000. I used part of the money to furnish my house in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos, and spent the rest on food for my family.”
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