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i know that the drivers would speed off during the attack

adecz:
REVISITING THE SPECTACULAR CAPTURE OF HAUSA KIDNAP KINGPIN HAMISU BALA ALIAS WADUME.
The arrest of the notorious Hausa kidnap kingpin Hamisu Bala popularly known as Wadume, is one of the most controversial anti-crime stories in Nigeria's modern history. It exposed deep institutional rivalries and collusion between high-level criminals and elements of the Nigerian military.The saga unfolded across several dramatic stages in 2019:

👉1. The Tracking and Initial Arrest
Wadume operated a lucrative kidnap-for-ransom network across Nigeria's northeast and north-central states from his base in Taraba State.

The Breakthrough: The Nigeria Police Force Intelligence Response Team (IRT) cracked his operation after arresting one of his accomplices. Under interrogation, the accomplice was used to track Wadume's movements via phone conversations.

🔥The Arrest: On 6 August 2019, undercover IRT operatives tracked Wadume to his hometown of Ibi, Taraba State. They successfully arrested him at a local spot without a fight, handcuffed him, and placed him into an unmarked operational vehicle to transport him to Abuja.

👉2. The Deadly Military Ambush and Escape
The arrest quickly turned into a national tragedy as the police team attempted to leave Taraba State.

The Attack: As the police vehicle approached a military checkpoint along the Ibi–Wukari road, soldiers attached to the 93 Battalion, Takum, opened fire on the vehicle. The barrage caused the police vehicle to somersault into the bush.

🔥The Fatalities: The soldiers shot and killed three police officers and one civilian, while injuring five others.

The Collaboration: Led by an army Captain Tijjani Balarabe (who was later revealed to be on Wadume's payroll), the soldiers freed the handcuffed kingpin. Balarabe took Wadume to a local welder to have his chains cut off with a spoon and hacksaw, allowing him to escape.

👉3. The National Hunt and Rearrest
The incident caused a severe standoff and public warfare of words between the Army and the Police. President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a high-level investigation while the police launched a massive nationwide manhunt.

🔥The Capture: Exactly two weeks later, on 19 August 2019, IRT operatives successfully tracked Wadume to a hidden residence in the Hotoro area of Kano State. He was rearrested without further bloodshed and flown directly to Abuja.

The Confession: Upon his arrest, Wadume confessed on camera that the military personnel had intentionally attacked the police to free him, confirming widespread suspicions of deep-seated collusion.

👉4. Conviction and ReleaseWadume was arraigned alongside several civilians and security accomplices.

The Sentencing: In July 2022, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced Wadume to seven years in prison. Crucially, he was convicted only on counts of escaping lawful custody and unlawfully dealing in prohibited firearms, as the core charges of kidnapping were dropped due to a lack of prosecuted evidence.

✖Freedom: Because his sentence was backdated to his initial arrest in 2019, Wadume was released from Kuje Prison in April 2024 after serving his full term. Upon returning to Taraba State, he was controversially greeted with a heroic, jubilant welcome by local community members. Celebrating criminals has become normalised in Nigeria so long as you have money to splash around.




🆗MY Take🆗

How come, the military officer who gruesomely executed some policeman in order to free a deadly criminal basically went
scot free ??.

they were never tried for murder

smallsmall:
Is it there Houses that is your headache or the kidnaping?
Let us see your own village naa, since you siddon for attachment seat, join Young Shall grow Transport come Lagos at ten years, why wont you be running your mouth?

u think am igbo or live in lag? naaah. am a big boy, loving in agbor

see their dirty houses for background

make she no worry tinubu go share cups of rice and sachets of oil. by 2027, may, fuel go be 2500

who takes can seriously? na egunje them be.where where they when dachomo took it upon himself to announce to the whole world with video evidence?

Jef4u:
Hello Nairalanders,

I am creating this thread to publicly call out the gross incompetence of GTBank (@gtbank) and First Bank (@FirstBankngr). I am currently completely stranded, out of cash, and cannot even afford transport fare because both banks are holding onto my money and playing games with my life.

On the 25th of May, 2026, I transferred ₦50,000 from my First Bank account to my GTBank account.

First Bank debited me instantly. After a week of crying out to both banks, First Bank customer care on X just sent me a DM confirming the transaction was successful on their end and gave me the official 30-digit NIBSS Session ID: 000016260525212658002065390897.

Here is where the wickedness from GTBank starts:
1. Over the weekend, a GTBank agent checked their deep server logs and confirmed to me on WhatsApp that they saw the transaction sitting on their server gate on a "BLANK STATUS."

2. Because they saw it, they created a formal inward dispute ticket for me with Reference ID: 260601353720618 and promised it would be credited.

3. Shockingly, this morning (Tuesday, June 2nd), another GTBank agent named Eberechi Chukwueke sent me an email (CRM:033400000396) completely contradicting the bank, claiming they have "no evidence" of the transaction and told me to go back to First Bank!

How can a bank issue a tracking reference ID for a stuck transaction on Monday, and then turn around on Tuesday to say "no evidence"?

If GTBank's server gate rejected the "blank status" transaction, it means the ₦50,000 has automatically reversed back into First Bank’s internal suspense ledger, and First Bank is lazily sitting on my money without crediting my app dashboard!

I am stuck at home, starving, and stranded. Both banks need to stop passing the buck. One of you is sitting on my ₦50,000.

Please help me tag @gtbank and @FirstBankngr handles on social media. Moderators, please move this to the Front Page to save an innocent customer from this institutional nightmare!

i don see pepper for access and gt hand, i jejely go moniepoint.no deduction of 400 per month, no 50#monthly deduction.for ATM card.all those 20 naira deduction for ussd no dey.instant credit and debit transactions , less than 2 secs.if u receive above 10k, na 10# go commot. anything below 10k, is free. I remove all my cash for access and gt put inside.

see damage control after court verdict. impunity. they are coming for u. na so persons wey no buy form for senate, still become candidate and became senate president

CodeTemplar:
which one rejected gifts, redeem or winners?

they went to winners thinking it was redeemed, gifts werent rejected, it was church people leaving

these people still think we are still in dark ages. na so ibori, okowa team for warri, mistook redeemed for winners chapel, come go do thanksgiving, with foodstuffs worth at least 40 million. come begin campaign. people vex leave church. so irritating

smoking na sure odd for lung cancer.na so when I go scan for appendix, one guy just conclude his own finish and left. na so the workers say how em wan tell that guy say his lungs don grow cancer.

they will secretly do it

e miss abi ma embalming cause am. dead body dey change u no go know am again oh. my gradma own when i see am, e dey still haunt me say na the person i dey always play with i dey see wey don black, with cotton inside nose, ears, body come dry like crayfish

make wike come talk now. is he aoc ir pdp member?

na lprd lugard wey join us together i blame. we are different people.

Onitsha and robbery for keke na 5 and 6

na so remi go lie for u.s until chinedu trump play video of mass burial with dachomo officiating and begging u.s. once apc take ur state, fulani go begin kill and the governor go deny it

we were existing as different entities, and peacefully, till they almagamated this country onto one, for British administrative convenience east and most of south were traders and craftsmen.they joined us with north and west/lagos and in 1914, called us nigeria. na there our problems of today start, and it wont end. i used to attack kanu, maybe their style of rejection of the system, but am now full supporter of ipob as long as no violence is used. we for be different countries today .fulani just attack enugu a couple of hours

he will lose in a landslide . u see those 11 states for south and east, even if all governors defect, tinuboo no go see their vote. shishi.

where is issa patami? he should take over. them dey avoid the post same way everybody dey fear to be atiku running mate cos its an exercise in futility

MightyThunder:
Wow. That's an horrible thing to go through as a whole, probably for a very long time.

Do well not to replicate the same unhealthy dispositions of your parents, to your kids, please. Narcissism is the most profound form of abuse, which unhealthily impacts and critically deteriorates the mental health.

at all at all. infact,i peck top of my 2 kids head, boy and girl twins almost everyday, and if they do something naughty, which requires cane, i normally assign task for them to work.

Sonnobax15:

Just imagine.

The mother did this bunch of shiit and hid it from the same man whom she claims she love for donkey of years

I keep saying it,that any Nigerian president who can make DNA test free of charge or at least subsidize it will be the greatest Nigerian president ever

all nigerian women will vote against him, including his wife, and he will lose it cos women doubles in population, and all will come out to vote, cos they wont want crisis to hit either them or their fellow womens home

MightyThunder:
To be specific, since you're curious, once siblings don't get along, there is a narcissistic parent or parents in the bloodline.

When siblings don’t get along, it’s rarely just about personality clashes or childhood rivalries. Often, it’s the aftermath of something much deeper, which is the invisible fingerprints of a narcissistic parent somewhere in the family line.

Narcissistic parents don’t raise children to love each other. They raise them to compete, to perform, and to earn affection that was never freely given. And this results to adults, who carry invisible scars from growing up in a house where love was conditional, and comparison was constant.

A narcissistic parent plants division early. They might play favorites by showering one child with praise while quietly criticizing the other, and then switch roles when it suits them. This creates confusion, jealousy, and a lifelong sense of “never being enough.” Then, the golden child, and the scapegoat dynamic, is born.

The golden child learns to seek validation through pleasing the parent, while the scapegoat becomes the emotional dumping ground, blamed for everything that goes wrong. Neither role is love. Both are manipulation.

Over time, those roles solidify.
As adults, siblings may find it nearly impossible to connect authentically. One may still crave approval from the narcissistic parent, unconsciously siding with them and dismissing the other’s pain. The other may go low or no contact, trying to heal but feeling guilty for breaking the unspoken family rules of silence and loyalty.
The parent, meanwhile, sits at the center, often pretending confusion: “Why can’t you two just get along?” As if they didn’t light the fire themselves.

The saddest part is that, many siblings never realize the root of their disconnection. They see each other as enemies instead of fellow survivors. They replay the same toxic dynamics, not knowing that the real puppeteer is the emotional legacy of narcissistic parenting.

I speak as a person with raw experience, and until someone sees it clearly and breaks the cycle, the dysfunctionality and profound disunity, would echo through generations.
Resentment, rivalry, and emotional distance would be passed down like heirlooms.

my parents are very guilty of all you stated. may God forgive them, cos i resent them, and even though i dont say it out, they know, and its too late for us to talk about it, cos i have moved on and independent with my young family. God willing, am the exact opposite of my 2 kids.twins of a boy and girl they name me their bufallo.

parents are the major reason. they treat some deliberately as scapegoat, some as sacred cows, clear bias etc

Saturnalia:
Mostly Envy and seeds of discord sown by the Enemies of the Family.

tribalism and religious affinity cant be used to bamboozle again. cant fly anymore

if she fine exactly like this i go marry am

madam still looks neat in all aspects. there is something very fishy here. them get make up and hair professional there?

Lithiumite:
Why this guy like small small girls like this,I don dey suspect this guy

they are the sweetest for that place

ma totalitarian, civilian dictatorship dey rule Nigeria

picture of the hand inside that slimy hole or adonbiliviit