Aide to former President Buhari calls for public execution of Abuja’s deadly kidnapper

Bashir Ahmad, a former presidential aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, has demanded that Mohammed Bello, a notorious kidnapper who was recently apprehended in Abuja, be executed in public.

The Nigerian Police Force announced on Sunday that they had detained a person they suspect of being the kidnapper who abducted and killed Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar and other kidnapping victims in the Federal Capital Territory.

Mohammed reportedly admitted to the police that he was a member of the group that abducted family members in Bwari on January 2 when being questioned.

Bello Mohammed was arrested in a Kaduna hotel raid on January 20 with N2.25 million in suspected ransom money.

While reacting to the arrest, the aide to the former president said the public execution of the notorious kidnapper would serve as a stern warning to the remaining members of his gang and other criminals across the country.

“While I am aware that the law may not agree with me, but the public execution of that terrorist Mohammed Bello, the apprehended kidnapper involved in the kidnapping of #NajeebahAndHerSisters and murdering of Nabeehah and two others, could serve as a stern warning to the remaining members of his gang and other criminals across the country,” Ahmad wrote on X, formerly called Twitter.

“The last time I checked, the maximum punishment for kidnapping was 10 years imprisonment under the Terrorism Act 2011.”