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The kidnappers of an American citizen, Philip Nathan, who was abducted from his farmhouse at Nasalata village in Niger Republic on October 21, have revealed how American soldiers swooped on them in a helicopter to rescue their victim in the dead of the night.

The suspects, Aliyu Umar, 23, and Ali Abdulahi, 21, said that they had taken their hostage to a thick forest in Sokoto State, where they kept him for one week and provided 24-hour security to ensure he does not escape when from nowhere an helicopter hovered around where he was kept with white soldiers jumping down and killing all their gang members before taking their victim away without stress.

Aliyu told Sunday Sun in an interview that the whole operation did not last more than five minutes.

He said that he and his colleague Ali Abdulahi escaped being killed by the invading soldiers because they were off duty on the night that the American Seal carried out the operation.

He said that he watched the whole drama from a distance in a house they had taken refuge not too far from the spot they kept their hostage when the helicopter arrived in the area, hovered for sometime before the soldiers jumped out.

The suspect, however, said that he cannot remember the exact time of the night as he and his colleagues were too afraid to go out.

He also said that they did not hear the sound of any gunshot during the operation, but that it was only when they got there in the morning that they met the dead bodies of all their colleagues.

The suspects who are in police custody narrated how they kidnapped the American while he was relaxing in his farmhouse.

According to him, they went in about 12 motorcycles and worked with two other kidnap gangs, making them a total of over 20, that went for the operation.

On getting to the farm, he said that they met the victim who was in his house relaxing on the fateful day and surrounded him.

On sighting them, he said that the American offered to give them 20,000 Cefas, but they rejected the offer and took him away because they wanted their money in dollars.

After rounding him up, he said that they put him in one of the motorcycles with three other people to ensure he does not act funny and rode to the forest in Sokoto, where they have their hideout.

Sunday Sun brings you this interview from the suspect who was paraded by the police in Abuja:

“My name is Aliyu Umar, (aka Kwatte). I am 23 years old and a native of Kalmalu village in Illela Local Government Area of Sokoto State. I belong to a nine-man kidnap gang and I have been in the kidnapping business for sometime now and I have participated in several kidnappings both in Nigeria and Niger Republic. Some members of my gang are from Nigeria, some from Niger and some from Arab countries. I have made plenty of money in the kidnap business, but I cannot stop because there is plenty of money there.

“When we planned to kidnap the American, we decided to hire the services of our other colleagues from another group because we suspect that he may be having some people guarding him. We planned everything very well and rounded him up at his farmhouse. We went in about 12 motorcycles with over 20 of us. When we got there, we found him relaxing in one of his rooms and when he saw us he started pleading with us not to take him away, but we refused. He even offered us 20,000 Cefas, but we rejected the money because that was too small compared to what we were expecting to get from the American government when we kidnap him.

“So, we took him away in one of the motorcycles, two people sat behind him and the driver so that he will not escape because Americans are very smart people. When we took him, we drove for about five hours until we got to the place where we usually keep our hostages. We kept him with us for one good week and my boss made contact with his people who agreed to pay the amount we were asking for. We took good care of him because we needed the money. We carried out shift duties to ensure he does not escape. We took turns in this aspect. But something happened on the night that I was off duty and the whole thing was like a dream because we watched it from a house we live that is not very far from our hostage area.

That day in the midnight, I just saw helicopter flying around the area and then after sometime, it started going round and before I knew what was happening, soldiers started jumping out from the helicopter and the soldiers were while men and after sometime, they climbed back into the helicopter and flew away. This whole thing did not last more than five minutes and we did not hear any sound of gunshot. When we saw the soldiers, we were afraid that they were going to kill us so we hid ourselves until in the morning when we did not hear any footstep; we went to see if our colleagues were okay. But on getting there, we found them all dead and when we examined their bodies they were shot and we did not even hear the sound of gunshot. We also did not see our victim again that was when we knew that the white soldiers had taken him and we were afraid and ran away.

“On how he was arrested, he said he was arrested after the police used the telephone number with which they used to negotiate for the ransom for the American to track him.”

selemempe:
And yet they dont stand out in infrastructure in any way.
Lagos is filled with slums
Rivers the same
Akwaibom is entirely forgetable

So where is all that money going? Lagos has the smallest land in nigeria and the largest money yet most streets are untarred....no functional metro

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Meaning the rest of the states are shit holes

Hotice085:
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Amala talk

So he has uplifted Southern Kaduna to be Governor, he uplifted the Christians in Tangele Gombe state as he is uplifting the Christians in kwara.

Tell Tinubu this is Nigeria not Lagos or Alpha Beta company....
2023 is no go for Muslims, don't be insensitive

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Tinubu And Ganduje 2023 Our Only Hope......Moslem Moslem candidates, when they say they are Insensitive and extremist they will start shouting

Hotice085:
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Amala talk

So he has uplifted Southern Kaduna to be Governor, he uplifted the Christians in Tangele Gombe state as he is uplifting the Christians in kwara.

Tell Tinubu this is Nigeria not Lagos or Alpha Beta company....
2023 is no go for Muslims, don't be insensitive

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Tinubu And Ganduje 2023 Our Only Hope......Moslem Moslem candidates, when they say they are Insensitive and extremist they will start shouting

saraki2019:
Our only hope. Both rule big state and are successful

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I think both of them just got you out of jail

ThatFairGuy1:
If you check the op well, he's an Igbo man.

Why are you people this controversial. This is obviously a trait

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Everybody don tire for this Muslim government not only Igbo's
By now MURIC for don de scatter Nigeria had it been a non Muslim in power and another one lining to continue
Forget this hypocrisy abeg

samunaka:
My brother you want power shift to the South, that will surely happen, how and in what capacity or permutations leave that to the politicians to settle, that's just fair

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It is time for the people to dictate the tone not just leaving it in the hands of greedy politicians

24SEVEN:
But sincerely aren't Akwa Ibomites wasting their resources unnecessarily?

Look at the sparsely populated environment and tell me what vehicular traffic warrants such infrastructure. Can the money be used for something more pressing and/or beneficial.

Why do people who suddenly struck wealth resort to wastages.

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When the first fly over was being constructed the same nonsense you are sayin was said, maybe you live in a retrogressive state but in AkwaIbom we r expanding your thinking is too backward 4us

When it comes to lies give it to the politicians

OP do you know the meaning of prestigious?
Is it LASU, a bungalow cult infested 2nd choice tertiary school you are calling prestigious?
Something must be wrong you

This thread was designed by Igbos to blackmail the Yorubas

oh you IPOB rats are the highest of ILLITERATEs

fugarlion:
Look at his flat head like a typical Igbo man; major characteristic of Easterners. Yorubas and Hausas don't have flat heads. We are not the same type of black people no matter how they pretend we are. Yorubas in particular know deep well we are different but they keep lying to you we are one, just to penetrate, and will join Northerners to finish you off. Go and read how Adekunle slaughtered thousands of Ibibio men 15-50, slaughtered their leaders, buried them in a mass grave. When asked why he did it, he said " they are Igbo too"

I was reading the narrative of TY Danjuma how they identified Easterners when they were purging out Eastern military officers; head shape and skin tone for those who could speak Hausas fluently.

Adenkule murder of Ibibio men
https://www.nairaland.com/4024724/how-benjamin-adekunle-murdered-28

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AkwaIbom this furgalion of guy is a COWARD Igbo man go through his posts you will know he is Igbo, they are very deceitful set of human being, he is not Yoruba
Their stupidity is very transparent

kingi777:
The IPPIS doesn't have any package for payment of allowances to lecturers. Therefore, It's only the basic salaries they now earn. So how does federal government expect them to call off the strike and diligently work when they are forcefully enrolled into IPPIS and striping them of some allowances that make their salaries tangible.


BEFORE YOU CRITICISE THE LECTURERS TAKE A LOOK AT THIS;

Take home salary for lecturers after IPPIS deduction without allowances:
PhD LII is #130,000
PhD LI is #163,000 plus min. 3 years post PhD
Senior Lecturer #235,000 plus min. 6years post PhD
Professor ��‍� #345,000 plus min. 10 years post PhD
Senior Professor ��‍� #423,000....
Minimum of 3years gap with hard work. Many spend as high as 5years before they can move up the ladder of promotions.

REMEMBER
From these peanuts of a pay;
They teach a crowd for a class
They supervise multitudes
They attend conferences from their pockets
They attend seminars from this peanuts
They write and publish articles in reputable journals (enquire the cost of publishing).....etc
They undergo rigorous stress to carry out research.
They spend minimum of 4 years in BSc
They spend minimum of 2 years in MSc
They spend minimum of 3 years in PhD (in Nigeria is near impossible they even spend upto 5 years and above).

Consider their rigours, the pain, the emotional trauma, physical drain, brain drain, intellectual drain they go through just to be qualified for their job specification...

I think our Lecturers work like elephants and earn like ants, they deserve a better pay or renumeration.

In terms of welfare:
You know that 50% of your lecturers don't have good offices/furnitures.
Most lecturers lack good working environment.
Most lecturers handle/teach a crowd of students yet they still try to deliver lectures in such environment (instead of the normal 30-50 students class size).
Most Lecturers supervise projects at their expense.
You want his best yet you deny him the best.

When you compare this salary with those of other Federal Govt agencies it's very very ridiculous.
If you compare it with Universities abroad then Nigeria �� salary scale for lecturers is infinitesimally small.

Before you criticise them;
First put yourself in their shoes.
Could you have studied to PhD just to earn #130,000?
Could you have invested the better part of your life upto Prof just to earn #345,000?
Think! They may not have been the best they should yet they are among the best in the world especially if they are giving the right environment to practice.

Before you criticise ASUU/Lecturers think.
Except you are happy with the state of the university system.

NO COUNTRY CAN GROW BEYOND IT'S VALUE FOR EDUCATION.

Copied and reviewed

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Just get ready for the longest strike ever in Nigeria history

jericco1:
Poor quality

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Ordinary cement bag the useless federal government can't provide

derealj:
This is for those that are shouting Ibadan up and down. Ibadan is not even in the top three.

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People like you are the ones making KANU to feel proud of his zero intelligence..
Men ur education is a complete waste

pazienza:
Ibibio were one with Annang and Efik.
They belonged to Calabar province.
The Calabar province had three slots. The Annang took Ibibio slot.

You can see that two Annangs were in the list,
One of the Annangs took Ibibio quota. But the Ibibio didn't mind, they are brothers with Annang.

You shouldn't be crying more than the bereaved.

By the Way Eyo Ita took Efik Quota.

But perhaps it's a matter of "give and take", because the Ibibio were somewhat compensated in the parliament secretary,as they took all the two quota for the Calabar province with no Efik on the list.
The East was ran by technocrats. Every single move or appointment was well calculated, nothing was left to chance.

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AZIKIWE was busy applying divide and rule tactics against the IBIBIOS/EFIKs, he made sure the Ibibio Union was totally broken and promoted many chiefs to rival the Obong of Calabar.
Azikiwe was a vengeful and power controlling freak who never tolerated people who questioned his resolves

The people following KANU are the most useless set of human being alive, when he lamented over his dog I thought it was a joke now I know he is mad but his followers are beyond useless

Dedetwo:
If only your silly skull could allow you to realize that certain boundaries are determined through the muzzle of the gun. In addition, some folks are expendable thanks to Nigerian government in Bakassi peninsula.

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Hehehehe! their first warlord saw Nigeria government n took of to cotedvoire, an expendable save the rest of d lots
The present one didn't even see bullet n zoom he is in Europe, the father burial he failed to show up instead he threatened the family of an expendable.
The coward had to apologized at d long run....
You and your ancestors are born cowards we dealt with you during slave trade n we will do it again
Biafra is not Nigeria

Yujin:
Lol. KingOKON, have you forgotten you're impersonating an Efik? Chai... this your low IQ is ridiculous.

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Dis guy ur backwardness is second to none, I bet u neva go outside ur village since you were born? Na nairaland just de help you with small small sense

IPOBs are infants when it comes to freedom fighting, resource control and equity but they are so DUMB to know anything.
But what can one learn from KANU if not mouth running?

MetaPhysical:
Me and a few of my brothers had been brainstorming on the question of Biafra and we believe we found a working solution.

Check this out....

This looks like SE moved to North but it is not. This is Kano State you are looking at. Trust me!

Imagine now that Kano State is trying to separate itself and become a sovereign state but all the states around it are hostile.

Can you see the challenges and the almost impossible hurdles it will face to realize that ambition?

It is actually possible for Kano to gain sovereingty and if it wants a corridor to Niger as an international border that is possible too.

How does Kano work it and achieve that?

This is what me, mukaila, fatai, monjidi, murisiku and abu have been busy brainstorming.

We have answer.

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Ogbeni you are still brainstorming? The Okoros have finalized payment in dollars for port usage with us, the usage of airspace is next on d card and how much dollars is to be paid, jeun soke continues!
They know they are a landlocked country but initial gragra is allowed

post=89729648:
Post this link for the fool to read, it's existing law, he know nothing, below is international lAw on River Niger not Nigeria law

http://www.internationalwatersgovernance.com/niger-basin.html

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Just get ur money ready like others are doing ur laws only exist and end here

Mel003:
With access to the sea, airport and resources your region has the highest debt in the country very Soon Chinese will take over your region.

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Chinese have taken over Brazil
They built the most modern ports in Greece
You better go worry over d erosion have finish ur region