Date: 2017-01-28

AN ex-convict, Hammed Mohammed, has revealed how he masterminded the abduction of a medical doctor, Tunde Abdulrahman and shot him dead in July 2016.

Abdulrahman, was until his death attached to the Omu -Aran General Hospital in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State.

He was abducted by three armed men who stormed his father's house, located in Tenke area of Ilorin and taken away in his Toyota Corolla saloon car to an unknown destination.

The incident was reported to the Kwara Police Command and the Department of State Security, DSS, in the state, following which his stolen mobile phones were traced to the home of a security guard working in his father's house in Oke-Ose area of Kwara State.

The security guard, Mohammed Jamiu, who had worked with the Abdulrahman's for more than ten years was subsequently arrested by the police, while investigations eventually revealed that his son, Hammed, an ex-convict, masterminded the abduction of the late medical doctor.

On sensing that policemen were closing in on him, Hammed, according to police sources fled to Sokoto, where he stayed for four months before returning to Kwara in November 2016, where he was arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT led by the Assistant Commissioner of Police(ACP) Abba Kyari.

It was gathered that Abdulrahman's bereaved family had earlier forwarded a petition to the Inspector General of Police

Ibrahim Idris, asking for the police chief to help unravel those responsible for their son's abduction.

IRT's operatives were said to have trailed Hammed to a hideout in Omu-Aran, where he had regrouped with two other robbery suspects terrorizing Kwara State, Olusho Rotimi and Ayo Ayeni. Hammed was said to have confessed during interrogation that he orchestrated and participated in the abduction and killing of Abdulrahman, but he declined to show the IRT operatives where he buried the corpse of the medical doctor.

A police source disclosed that Hammed led detectives to arrest several innocent persons who had no connection with the case. Our correspondent gathered that he falsely alleged that a rich man in the Shagamu area of Ogun State had bought Abdulrahman's corpse from him for N400, 000, while he also deceitfully led detectives to a forest in Kwara State, where he showed them some bones and said they were the remains of Dr. Abdulrahman. It however emerged they were cow bones after they were taken for autopsy.

In a bid to arrest other fleeing members of his gang, Hammed also led detectives to Ijebu Ode where a 24-yearold car snatcher, who had no link with the kidnapping was arrested. Confessing his complicity in the crime, Hammed said: "I started crime as a car snatcher and I stole several cars from their owners within Kwara and Oyo States, but I was arrested in 2015 and taken to prison where I spent more than one year. While in prison I had two close friends, Yemi and Dayo and when we were released we had nothing to do, hence, Dayo suggested that we should go into kidnapping and I suggested we should kidnap the son of my father's boss, who is a medical doctor. It was Dayo who brought the guns we used in abducting the doctor (Abdulrahman) from his father's house.

My father wasn't on duty when I came and I was outside, Dayo and Yemi went in and abducted and covered his (Abdulrahman) face. We took him out in his car and we drove him into a forest by Oke-Olowo and we had an argument and Abdulraman's face got opened and he saw me and called my name. He threatened to deal with me when he is out and I shot him. He didn't die instantly, we took him to a spot within the forest and dumped him.

I took his car away and I sold it to one Alhaji for N28000. I also took his phones with me. One month after we killed him, operatives of DSS came to our house in Oke-Ose and they arrested my father. I ran to Sokoto State and I worked as an auto mechanic and when I exhausted all the money I had with me. I came back to Kwara State to form a new gang. I don't know how the police knew I was back in town and they trailed and arrested me. I had no plan to kill the doctor but I was left with no choice when he identified me."