BREAKING: Dozens welcome Wadume, Taraba kidnap kingpin after detention heart term [PHOTOS]

Ibbi, a neighborhood in Taraba Negate, used to be in a joyous mood on Sunday, April 7, 2024, as dozens of residents trooped out to welcome standard kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Baba aka Wadume.

Politics Nigeria remembers that Wadume used to be arrested in August 2019 after the Intelligence Response Crew (IRT) of the IGP squad that arrested him had been attacked by troopers while on their manner to Abuja.

The troopers connected to Battalion 93, Ibbi-Takum road, led by Tijjani Balarabe, had been reported to have house Wadume free and thanks to the this fact killed about a of the officers who arrested him.

He used to be then rearrested and sentenced to detention heart.

This newspaper understands that the kidnap lord used to be released from Kuje Penal complex in Abuja, on Friday after concluding his detention heart sentence which ran concurrently.

Wadume used to be ferried into Ibbi through river Benue, the keep he used to be got by hundreds of of us, including youths and ladies folks.

A resident of Ibbi city, Musa Garba, acknowledged the city used to be at standstill for Wadume.

Garba acknowledged the elderly and youths trooped out to receive Wadume by the river facet and from there he went through the city before retiring to his dwelling.

“We’re in festive mood as Wadume regained his freedom and now out of detention heart and now with us in in his dwelling city Ibbi,” a resident educated DailyTrust.

Meanwhile, Wadumi has visited the Chief of Ibbi chiefdom, Alhaji Salihu Danbawuro, at his palace.

Wadume educated the executive that he used to be on the palace to contend with the used ruler and all the of us of his chiefdom.

“I and all the of us of Ibbi chiefdom are chuffed that Hamisu Wadume is now abet  in Ibbi his dwelling city.” the executive responded.