Witness Exposes, Jethro Ngusen & 6 Others Over Pa Dariye Case, His Kidnap, His Gruesome Murder
Yakubu Ventim
The intrigue of political betrayal and family conflict was unmasked in the continued trial of the suspected killers that is linked to one Chief Jethro Ngusen who is a close neighbor and political gladiator that the Former Governor Joshua Dariye trusted very much, who was fingered as the mastermind to the kidnapping of his father, Late Dariye Defwan who has whisked away on the 17th June 2020 and his remain was recovered in a shallow grave on a Hok hill by a group of community volunteers.
Inspector Joseph Olarju who is a witness in chief while testifying told the court that the Abubakar alias Buba in his, confessional statement, exposed to the police crackdown investigation unit that he operate under a syndicate as a notorious kingpin and he admitted kidnappings Agboma Agara in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State and also in Plateau State where they have committed much evil crime against humanity by kidnapping, killing and, collection of ransom if the family refused to pay their victim would be beating or massacre.
Mr. Abubakar Mohammed alias Buba whose confession reveals how they were hired and paid by one Jethro to kidnap late Pa Dariye even when ransom of 10 million Naira was paid, but we went ahead to kill the 93 years old Pa Dariye in Hok hill few kilometers from the Mushere village.
The Nigeria Police officer in charge of the Intelligent Investigation Bureau, IRT, FIB, Evidence in Chief, an IPO, Inspector Joseph Olarju has told the court, that in his line of duties to investigate criminal offenses and heinous crimes like armed robbery, kidnappings, culpable homicide and the act of terrorism he has spent 17 years in service.
He identified and recognize all the defendants inside the dock, saying how he got to know all the defendants through Buba confession statement on their involvement in the kidnapping, armed robbery, culpable homicide, which was officially reported to the headquarters in Abuja and the case was assigned to him with some of the team members on October 2020 involving one Mustapha Mohammad Alias Rutuma .
According to him, Mustapha Mohammad is a syndicate that specializes in kidnappings which the case of one first-class chief who was kidnapped in a village in Kachia by the name Agboma Agara on the 19th of October 2018.
He explained that during the investigation Mustapha Mohammad was arrested in connection with the case and himself Mustapha Mohammad confessed to the series of his participation in so many armed robberies, kidnapping, culpable homicides in Kaduna and its environs.
During the investigation, Mustapha Mohammad mentioned the names of his gang members as alias Buba Dauda ,Nasiru Kachalla in connection with the Agboma Agar furthermore, Mustapha Mohammad gave them the address of Buba in Bokkos LGA of Plateau State and they continued with his investigation and intelligent gathering of their criminal activities when swing into action to unravel the culprit.
Olarju further disclosed that on the 19the of February 2021, the team embarked on searching for Buba as they perfected their investigation activities with the team members, Inspect. Joseph Olarju ,Insp Musa Jafaru ,Insp.Bulama Mohammed , Insp.Benarch Adejo, Insp.Gift Inokela and Sqt Samuel Maiyaki .
We came to Jos on the 4th of April, 2021 together with our suspect Mustapha Mohammad was perfect on how to carry out the investigation by reporting to the commissioner of Police Plateau State command as he endorsed their journey and referred them to the Deputy Commissioner of Police who communicated all the Divisional Police officers across the 17 LGAs to assist them with the investigation where necessary and from there we proceed to Bokkos LGA, The, DPO office to book for their arrival, however, in Bokkos they met with the DPO, DSP Thomas Shehu who attached them with two of his surveillance team , Insp Ayuba Garba, Sgt John Garba there we sat with the surveillance team and told them. We are looking for one Alias Buba with our suspect Mustapha Mohammad, who described that he is slim, tall, and fair complexion and their suspect Mustapha. The information given them by Mustapha Mohammad was that they used to meet with Alias Buba in Daho, Maituna, Mangar, Hurtish, Jo so, all in Bokkos LGA.
Then, they immediately hook with the surveillance team together with their suspect Mustapha Mohammad, who led them into the villages that were mentioned in search for alias Buba.
Finally, we got Buba arrested on the 24th of June 2021 at Mangar village the time we arrested him, he was wearing camouflage trousers yellowish cap mask, and camouflage. However, Buba on sighting Mustapha Mohammed, knew that something is wrong somewhere so we arrested him and immediately moved back to Bokkos Division together with my team members with the surveillance team and the two suspects from there we move to the force headquarters.
Insp.Olarju stated that he took the suspect to our investigation room where there is chairs, tables with some of my team who are already sitting down inside and his superior officers ASP Mohammad Amadu, ASP Usman Mohammad and he questioned Buba in the English language which he asked of his communication and said he prefers Hausa and I understand both where I translated the words to him in Hausa and he now thumbed printed his statement.
In the aftermath of the thorough investigation, Buba now told us his real name as Abubakar Mohammed who is now standing trial before the court . Abubakar Mohammad now confessed to his series of participation in armed robbery kidnappings, a culpable homicide that he participated in the killing of Agboma Agara including the kidnapped and brutal murder of Pa Dariye in Rop village of Mushere district of Bokkos LGA of Plateau state.
During the course of his investigation, Abubakar Mohammed, alias Buba mentioned his gang members whom they participate in the kidnappings of Pa Dariye he then mention, one Yau Saidu, in Kadan Mushere, we immediately swing into action.
After his confessional statement Abubakar Mohammad, I took him before my superior officers and then read his confession to my boss and translated into Hausa and he understood, there my superior asked Abubakar Mohammad that are you the one who gave this statement Abubakar Mohammad , alias Buba said yes I gave my statement volunteering no threat to me and not under duress then my superior officer confirmed and endorse it.
And our investigation continue where we left our office together with my team members and the suspect Abubakar Mohammed on the 30th June,2021we came down to Bokkos we slept there on 1st September 2021 we booked our arrival at the Divisional headquarters with the surveillance team and move to Horopp village in search of Yau Saidu and got him arrested in Horopp top division down to Abuja with Abubakar Mohammed, we enter our investigation room we recorded the statement of Yau Saidu we did the same method of taken his confessional statement and I even bought food for Yau Saidu the suspect.
During in interrogation, Yau Saidu narrated all the story and I wrote it down in English as he mentioned a series of his participation in armed robbery kidnappings and culpable homicide after the confession, he mentioned his gang members who participate in the Pa Dariye kidnap and mentioned one Dauda Isa , Titus Ezekiel whose are suspect 3&7 the same day we came back to plateau state on 1st July 2021 myself and the team members with Yau Saidu on reaching Plateau we proceed to Bokkos in the morning where our suspect led us to Horopp in Bokkos in search of Dauda Isa and Titus Ezekiel and they were all arrested on the 2nd July 2021 .who actively involved in the kidnap we immediately moved them to Abuja and took their confessions in the room and I recorded.
The Two accused persons gave us a vivid involvement in the crime on how Titus Ezekiel was invited by Dauda Isa in a volunteer Hausa language and record it in English after the thumbprint on aged.
Dauda Isa narrated his involvement in the kidnapped of Pa Dariye and mentioned some of the gang members as of Sunday Ibrahim and Mangut Shinwar who are suspects 4&5 in the count charge as defendants and again we head back to plateau state and went to Bokkos LGA . We affect an arrest on Dauda Isa on the 7th July 2021 we head back to Jos and slept. On the 8th July 2021 with all the previous team members and the surveillance attached to us together with Dauda Isa we embark on a search of Sunday Ibrahim and Mangut Shinwar and arrested them in Horopp of Mushere district of Bokkos in connection with the killing.
Besides, again on the 8th July 2021, we took their confession in the investigation room, both the culprits understood and that time they mentioned Henry Amos and Jethro Ngusen who masterminded the kidnap of Pa Dariye
How the suspect linked the killers of Pa Dariye and this led to us to go about arresting all those that the mentioned as being connected to the killing, we moved to Bokkos with our colleagues to book . The team arrested Sunday Ibrahim and Mangut Shinwar at Pankshin cottage hospital before his arrest we booked him at Divisional headquarters on 9th July 2021, and move him to Jos . When we arrived Jos Jethro Ngusen was arrested opposite NTA at the Old Airport including Henry Amos.
Jethro Ngusen admitted committing the offense and his involvement and how he instructed Sunday Ibrahim in his confession without the use of force and not under duress.ASP Obafemi keeper mark the items as CER 119/2021 written in police statement paper and the items were admitted in exhibits B, B1, B2 on 13-07-2021.
He also presented a DVD video of confessional statements of all the accused persons NEKON Digital camera model D7000 which has been working for 5 to 6 years where he also identified all those defendants.
Barr. Steve Abba counsel to the 2nd & 7 defendants opposed that their confession was done under duress and dehumanizing them to accept the outcome of whatever script they witness are looking for.
Abba opposed that his client Mr. Jethro Ngusen was tortured to the point that it almost blinded his right eye, so he rejected the admissibility of the statement sought to be tendered in evidence saying the prosecution counsel, DPP need to prove beyond reasonable doubt the alleged kidnapped of Pa Dariye.
Steve explains further that the whole exercise was like a stage of Bollywood script to information on movie fresh in all the accused persons how one of the suspected criminal terrorizing Kaduna State exposed Mr. Jethro Ngusen and the others criminal gang in alleged kidnap of Pa Dariye.
Justice Geoffrey Kamyal of High Court 10, West of Mines Plateau State has adjourned to the 7th,8th,&9th of March,2022 to commence trial within trials
He assured of his readiness to unmask the killer of the father Former Governor Joshua Chibe Dariye who was kidnapped on the 17the June 2020 in the Rop district of Bokkos Local Government Council of Plateau State.
The alleged accused persons who are standing trial are Yau Dauda, Sunday Ibrahim, Mangut Shinwar,
The family of Pa Dariye is raising concerns that one of the suspects Mr. Jethro Ngusen who is currently standing trial for murder has been according to special treatment in dressing without wearing the image code and sometimes misbehaving for not standing up even when others are standing.
