Why we killed Dangote’s senior employee – Kidnappers

The three men alleged to have kidnapped and killed the human resources manager of the Dangote Industries Limited, Istifanus Bello, have revealed why he was killed.
The suspects – Abdullahi Saliu, Babuga Adamu and Abubakar Gide – who were Fulani herdsmen, were on Tuesday transferred from the Force headquarters in Abuja to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos, pending the conclusion of investigation.

In an exclusive chat with our correspondent, the suspects said 10 of them carried out the operation. 20-year-old Saliu, an indigene of Kano State, said they were led by one Alti, who fired the shot that killed Bello.
He said, “We were 10 that carried out the operation and we were all fully armed. We had attacked and abducted the four expatriates while they worked in a quarry located in a forest in Ijebu-Igbo; they were guarded by two policemen who had an AK-47 rifle and a pump-action rifle.
We surrounded the quarry, overpowered the policemen and took one of their rifles. We didn’t touch them. We then moved the expatriates into the forest where we fed them with bread and soft drinks.
We made contact with their families and the company and demanded N30m ransom. We later reduced the money to N10m. Some days later, the man (Bello) brought N5.6m.
Our leader, Alti, was angry and after releasing the four expatriates, he seized the man. He said he must call his family members or the firm to pay up the remaining N4.4m or else he would be killed in three days.
But the man said he does not have any number to give us and he does not have any money. After the three days elapsed and nobody came for him, he was shot dead.”
The suspects dumped the victim’s corpse in a river and tied it to a log to prevent the corpse from floating. Fishes had already picked out his eyes when the corpse was retrieved. Search is now on for the remaining seven suspects, including the one with the police gun.