'We Kidnapped Falae To Get Money To Celebrate Salah’ (Photo Of Suspects)

The Department of State Security Service (DSS) paraded the two

suspected kidnappers of Olu Falae in front of the press today.

The two kidnappers, Abdullahi Usman and Babawuro Kato,

confessed to their crime saying they did it to have money to

celebrate Salah.

The suspects made their statements while answering questions

from journalists at a press conference in the DSS Headquarters.

According to Abdullahi Usman, he initiated the plan for money to

celebrate Salah, but regretted that one of his other accomplices

made away with the N5 million random paid by the family Falae’s

release.

Babawuro Kato, who drove the victim on motorcycle from one

location to another, also corroborated these statements but said

that he did not know the identity of the captive and he was not

part of the abduction.

Speaking on behalf of the DSS, Abdullahi Garba said that their

investigation has revealed that the abductors were merely

criminals, and that the kidnapping was not because of Falae’s

political status or his prominence in the Yoruba community as

speculated by some.

Mr. Garba maintained that the abductors collected a N5 million

ransom and were arrested at Zebra Hotel along Ganaja Road,

Lokoja in Kogi State.

He a$$ured Nigerians that efforts are being intensified to ensure

that all those a$$ociated with this criminal act will be brought to

justice.