Flagrant Abuse Of Office By Renegade NDLEA Operatives In Kaduna 

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By; HALIMAH SHUAIBU

Good morning members of the Press. We have been reluctant to toe this line, but when all peaceful avenues have been exhausted, we are left with no option but to address you, hoping that as the Fourth Estate of the realm, you will help us inform the nation about our despair and anguish.

We are specifically referring to the abduction, dehumanization and the subsequent illegal detention of our brother, Abubakar Shuaibu. 

This brazen display of criminality and irresponsibility started early this month when my brother Abubakar Shuaibu received a text message from an NDLEA junior operative by name Fahad Marwa on the 13th of May 2023. 

The text reads: “Doctor is Fahad Marwa please call me very important”. The text was received at 6:22pm on that fateful day. Abubakar Shuaibu and Fahad Marwa, along with Suleiman Marwa eventually met and they told him that they had codeine worth N50,000 for sale, if his friend, Jonathan Emmanuel popularly known as Jesse (currently on the run) was interested.

This face-off finally led to a physical brawl between Abubakar Shuaibu and the Marwa brothers, alongside Jesse and their friends in the military. 

The fight unfortunately resulted in serious injuries for Suleiman Marwa. Few days after, Abubakar Shuaibu was persuaded to go and apologise to the mother of Suleiman Marwa at their residence at Zuba Close, Shooting Range. 

As soon as he entered the house, Suleiman Marwa’s brothers swooped on him and inflicted serious injuries on him.

Despite this turn of event, our elder brother Ismail Shuaibu and I visited Suleiman Marwa in the hospital Amal hospital located at Kinkinau, Tudun Wada where he was receiving treatment. 

Most importantly gentlemen of the Press, the medical bills incurred by Suleiman Marwa was settled by one of the parents of the boys involved in the fight. Ismail Shuaibu also led one of our uncles to the Suleiman Marwa’s residence and once again, apologised to the mother.

Gentlemen of the press, these youths have been friends for years and their attempt to arrest Jesse or extort money from him was not authorised by their organization as far as we are concerned.

In the course of the fight between Suleiman Marwa, Fahad Marwa and my brother Abubakar Shuaibu along with his friends, our Nissan Frontier vehicle was damaged; all four tyres were punctured with knives and the car body massively dented. 

We all thought that bitter lessons have been learnt by all those involved in the fracas.

Unfortunately, on Saturday 27th May, 2023 at about 6:20 pm, our brother Abubakar went out to buy bread, and their so-called NDLEA operatives especially Fahad Marwa and Suleiman Marwa organized mobs, since they could not face him physically and launched physical assault on him. 

In addition to that, they abducted him and hid him at the family house of the chairman NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa at Zuba close, Shooting Range. 

Our brother, Abubakar Shuaibu was severely brutalized by these thugs masquerading as NDLEA operatives in the presence of their biological mother. 

It should also be noted that Ishaku Marwa, one of the Marwa brothers personally barricaded the gates purposely to stop any possible form of help from godly neighbours.

After inflicting injuries on him, they invited their brother, Musa Marwa also known as Kawu, another NDLEA operative attached to the Special Patrol. Kawu illegally took him to the NDLEA office at Katuru road and detained him. Thereafter, Kawu ordered the seizure of Abubakar Shuaibu’s two phones where he left them for safekeeping as at when he was maliciously attacked; an infinix Note20i and an iPhone XR from a shop known as “container” located at Shooting Range. All efforts to secure his release were thwarted by Kawu and other NDLEA operatives, who claimed they were acting on the orders of the State NDLEA commander.

We are indeed perplexed that in today’s democratic order, a security operative acting illegally (not on official duties) could harass, intimidate, brutalize, abduct and detained a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

We are appealing to all true mothers, brothers and parents to come to our aid and expose the atrocious crimes being committed by these outlaws hiding under the canopy of the respected and indefatigable chairman of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa. We call on the Gen. to rein in these characters before they shatter his hard-earned reputations and achievements. We are also calling on the Human Right Commission and other Human Right Organizations to rally round us and other oppressed citizens of Kaduna State and Nigeria.

Thank you for your attention.

Mrs Halimah Shuaibu is a 

Lecturer, Kaduna State University.

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