I AM A FRAUDSTER, NOT KIDNAPPER, WADUME TELLS POLICE

 ‘Wadume told police chiefs during his initial interrogation at the Force Headquarters Tuesday afternoon that he acquired his wealth primarily from fishing, which he said he did for decades,but he also admitted to being a 419 by deceiving people with traditional medicine to get millions from them.He insisted that he was not involved in kidnapping and the 419 was only a fraction of his large wealth”,the sources said

Penpushing further reports that Wadume was arrested on Monday night in Kano and transferred to the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday, putting an end to weeks of a manhunt for him, while it is recalled that his encounter with the police led to the killing of three police officers and a civilian.

The  police team from Inspector-General Intelligence Response Team (IRT) had gone to Taraba to effect  Wadume’s arrest  over his  alleged connection to a series of kidnapping incidents across Central Nigeria, but was rescued  by Nigerian soldiers in a fatal deadly encounter with a police team.

Penpushing also reports that the soldiers subsequently freed Wadume from the beleaguered police team, while the Nigerian Army admitted its personnel killed the police officers but denied it was deliberate, attributing the tragedy to poor communication by the detectives.

The President, thereafter ordered  a thorough investigation into the  ugly development, an exercise that had since commenced and a report expected in about two weeks, while the suspect on arrival at the Police Headquarters, confessed having  a close relationship with military and law enforcement authorities in Taraba State for a long time.