The Nigerian Military has captured a dreaded bandit leader and cattle rustler, Alhaji Goma Sama’ila.
Sama’ila, who was arrested in Kaduna State last Friday evening promised never to go back into the business of kidnapping and cattle rustling as he pleaded for mercy.
The 47-year-old bandit leader who had been in the practice for 20years, confessed to having kidnapped many people, with the help of his gang members.
He said, “My name is Alhaji Goma Sama’ila. I am 47 years old. I have been involved in kidnapping.”
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Speaking on his kidnap escapades, he said: “The first person is Abdul, his family paid a ransom of two hundred thousand naira (N200, 000), Alhaji Umaru gave us five hundred thousand naira (N500, 000), another person is Alhaji Birau, his family paid the total sum of three million naira (N3 million) and the other person is Alhaji Ibrahim who also paid seven hundred thousand naira (N700, 000).
“We have been chasing cows and all of us are from the North. People operating along this Ragachucku axis are: Lawal isah, Awalu, Bature Goma, Gamji, Sule, and the rest. They kidnapped someone and were given the sum of 10 million naira, they also killed one woman; that was the information we got about them.
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He further listed the names of his gang members.
“In my group, the number of people working within Ragachucku axis are Yusuf, Sule, Gomi, Nasiru, Tukur, Banki, Magaji. Then in the Kirama axis, there is Musa, Kadi, Oria, Ibrahim, Bala, Rebo, Gaia, Malan, Usama, Babangida, Abubakar, and Sule, I forgot the other one’s name. He later left us to join Babangida, Suleiman, and Sule.”
He further pleaded for forgiveness, promising never to go into banditry again. “I promise this will be the first and the last and I promise never to touch anything belonging to anyone ever again.
