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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Alleged Kidnap Kingpin Hamisu Bala 'Wadume'Who Escaped After Army Killed 3 Policemen

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THE suspected Taraba kidnap kingpin is a petty fish trader, painter, politician, polygamist with many children and a philanthropist. His wealth status might have been exergerated because of his generosity and profligate spending.

He was reclusive until the last two years. His wealth, allegedly through kidnapping shot him into ‘prominence’.






He is at the centre of a disagreement between the Army and the Police following soldiers killing of three policemen and a civilian who were on an anti-kidnapping mission in Taraba State.

The incident is under probe following public outcry.

Who is he? His name is Hamisu Bala. His nickname is “Why Do You Mean?”, which many mistake for “Wadume.” He is an Hausa man whose great grand father migrated from Katsina state.

He was born and brought up in Ibi local government area of Taraba State. His late father, Bala, was Hausa, while his mother was Tiv, from Ukum local government area of Benue state.

He holds a secondary school certificate, having attended the Government Secondary School (GSS) Ibi. It was gathered that he was “not a brilliant” Arts student.


“He completed secondary school in 2004 and did not proceed to any tertiary institution,” one of his classmates told The Nation.

Bala, 35, suddenly became so rich that many believe he made it through ‘rituals’. His posh residence in Ibi was built only last year. Before then, he was a petty trader who specialised in buying and selling of fish in Ibi.

“He was not even a big trader; he could only afford to buy only one or most of the time, half a basket of fish to sell at retail prices,” a source, who knows him well, said.

Bala was a painter who was in partnership with his brother.

During the 2019 polls, he aspired to become a House of Assembly member, representing Ibi Constituency, on the platform of the Young Democratic Party (YDP). But, he did not make it.

After making money Bala has been living the life of a philanthropist.


In the last two years, he reportedly built houses for his friends and donated hundreds of motorcycles and cars to young men and women. He is also believed to be generous to security agents.

“Sometimes he (alleged kidnapper) goes to tea sellers and settles the bills of tea drinkers. Then, he gives N10,000 each to the people,” a source in Ibi said.

Two of his wives have been under house arrest. His other two wives are in Mecca on pilgrimage, it was learnt.

So, how did police know Bala was a big time kidnapper to the extent of apprehending him? One of Bala’s accomplices, known as Kwarba, was apprehended by the police in Jalingo, over his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a Permanent Secretary.

During interrogation, Kwarba revealed that Bala was their leader. The police then allowed Kwarba to be communicating with Bala on the phone for over three days, as though he was not in detention. Based on their communication, the police were able to gather useful information.

It was during one of their conversations on the phone that Bala disclosed that he was coming to Ibi for Eid el Kabir celebration. On arrival in Ibi, Bala phoned Kwarba to inform him.

Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) embarked on the journey. They got to the police headquarters in Jalingo, before proceeding to Ibi, in a white Toyota Hummer Bus marked, LAGOS: MUS-564EU.

They were in mufti, and carried Kwarba along so that he could identify Bala. They met Bala at a coffee joint, at the junction to Government Lodge. Kwarba identified him.

To pull the wool over the kidnapper’s eyes, the policemen in disguise went out and told him they brought a bus for sale. Bala sought to know the cost of the vehicle so that he could buy it, but the policemen suggested they would step aside for bargaining.

It was when he (Bala) got into the bus that the policemen told him they were there to arrest him, after handcuffing and chaining his legs.

After arresting the suspect, the operatives drove into Ibi town briefly and began to drive carefully out of the town.

But while passing the coffee joint, (where Bala was picked) the suspected kidnapper forced his head out of the vehicle and shouted: “I have been kidnapped by these people.”

Soon, the news spread and some of Bala’s ‘boys’ began to chase the vehicle on motorbikes. The operatives had passed the first and second check points, with only one remaining to pass.

Bala’s accomplices then called the military checkpoint where the bus was ambushed. They opened fire on the bus conveying the operatives and suspected kidnapper. The bus somersaulted into the bush, following the barrage of gun fire, as the driver lost control of the wheel.

A source revealed that, after the killing of the three policemen and the civilian, Bala, who was handcuffed and chained in the legs, crawled and took refuge in the home of an old Jukun woman.

The following day, he called his army captain friend who came with three of his ‘boys’ in a red Toyota Corolla.

Our source alleged that the army captain cut the chains on the suspected kidnapper.

“It was around 7:30 am that he (Bala) was taken back to his home in Ibi in the red car,” an eyewitness said.

On getting back to Ibi, his neighbours and Ibi residents went into jubilation. It was gathered that while the jubilation was on, Bala sneaked out of town. He has not been seen since then.

from The Nation

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    1. This is an smart cover up story by Nigeria Army to douse the tension about the policemen they killed. If you know IRT, there is no way a captured suspect under handcuffs will force his head out of the window. You are sandwiched in the bus mind you and the windows are not open too. Two, the policemen introduced themselves and fraternized with the soldiers at the 3 checkpoints on they way in. How will the soldiers now suddenly mistake them for kidnappers on their way out?

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    2. The story get K-Leg ooooooooo,killing a supposed kidnapper on sight without trying to neutralise them slightly and the kingpin will be spared to a point where he can crawl to safety???? Naija I hail the.

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  2. Hmmmm.....there's a lot of atrocities going on in this country ooh. So our uniform men that swore an oath to protect us are now the ones working hand in hand with criminals. What an eyesore. I pray he's apprehended and dealt with. Those soldiers that killed the police men doing their work should face firing squad.

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  3. Oh God!!! What is the meaning of all this, how I wish I can unread this from my head. What a wicked world, Kai.... God punish them for killing those innocent police men.

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    1. I wish I can unread it too.

      Wicked world!

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  4. Hmmmm....looks like the army officers involved in this know what they are doing. Looks like a deliberate killing. #itiswellwithNigeria

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  5. Jaga Jaga country,just imagine a kidnapper being a house of rep.No wonder most politicians are touts.

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  6. I'm not buying this narrative not until the Nigerian Police parades Kwarba, the Junku woman and the Army Captain. Who is this Army Captain. Did he even make any official report of rescuing a kidnapped victim? Who rescues a kidnapped victim and take them home immediately without police report and all?

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    1. I don’t blame you at all. Do you know anything about what’s happening in the state?

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  7. I think the Army, for fear of reprisal by the Police, cooked up this narration and placed the whole blame on the Captain. This creates an image that the Army based in Taraba are not guilty of colluding with kidnappers.

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    1. Reprisal from which police. You make me laugh

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    2. Army fear police reprisal? You must be smoking too much ganja.

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  8. God bless you, how did they know who housed him after he crawled out?
    How did they get the detailed information of his arrest and how he disappeared while his people are celebrating his return?

    The story is too sweet like a well written movie script.

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    1. Ibi is a local place and this sort of news spreads like wildfire

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  9. Don’t even know whether to write rip to the policemen killed. For lots of innocent lives have been taken by these policemen as well. May God have mercy on Nigeria.

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  10. God bless you, how did they know who housed him after he crawled out?
    How did they get the detailed information of his arrest and how he disappeared while his people are celebrating his return?

    The story is too sweet like a well written movie script.

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    1. Some of u don't have sense...Did u say "How did they get detailed information on his arrest?" Did u even read the whole writeup or u skipepdt some and ran here to comment? Let me help u and copy out thr answer from the story written up there..

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      "During interrogation, Kwarba revealed that Bala was their leader. The police then allowed Kwarba to be communicating with Bala on the phone for over three days, as though he was not in detention. Based on their communication, the police were able to gather useful information."

      That was how they got information they used to apprehend him..Scroll and read further from the story..Dis is how some of u fail exam.

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    2. You think after news got out of his escape and the killings of the policemen, they did not go back to look for him?

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  11. Northern Nigeria's own "Robinhood"...

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  12. Seriously well written script.

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