Fulani herdsmen face trial over alleged kidnapping

SIX Fulani herdsmen arrested by the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT), over allegedly kidnapping and terrorizing businessmen, including residents of Okeho, a border town in Oyo State, have been charged to court.

The suspects, identified as 35years old Abdullahi Mohammed, Abubakar Abubakar, 28years, Damanya Gambo, 30years old, Usman Saidu, 30, Usman Idris, 35 and Hassan Maikudi, 30, were yesterday arraigned before an Oyo State High Court in Ibadan, on a four count charge bordering on armed robbery kidnapping and illegal possession of charms.

One of the count charges reads; “That you Abdullahi Mohammed, 35, Abubakar

Abubakar, 28, Damanya Gambo, 30, Usman Saidu, 30, Usman Idris, 35 and Hassan Maikudi, 30, on the same date time and place in the aforementioned High Court Judicial Division, did unlawfully kidnapped one Alhaji Maikudi Idris and received a ransom of N1.5million before he was released and thereby committed offence contrary to and punishable under Section 364, (1)(2) of the Criminal Code Cap C38 Vo11, Laws of the Oyo State of Nigeria 2000.