Kidnapper of Tiger Eye PI member for court Monday
The police in Tamale will Monday put before court Adamu Asumah, 35, one of the people who are said to have allegedly masterminded the kidnapping of a member of the Tiger Eye PI team that worked with undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas on his exposé on bribery in the Judiciary.
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Adamu is said to be the one who identified the member of the investigation team, Ishmael Hussein, 24, also known as Mallam, when he visited his family house last Saturday morning.
Adamu, who is in the custody of the police, would be put before the court on a charge of kidnapping and assault by imprisonment, according to a police source.
Hussein was first abducted at the Tamale Polytechnic area but was later taken to two places before he was rescued by the police at a shop at the Aboabo Market in Tamale which belonged to a brother of one of the retired justices implicated in the bribery scandal.
Police confirmation
When contacted, the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr Ebenezer Tetteh, confirmed Adamu’s arrest and said he would be charged with kidnapping and assault by imprisonment.
He said Hussein had been kept at a safe place by the police and provided with adequate police protection.
ASP Tetteh told the Graphic Online that the police were looking for the rest of the people involved in Hussein’s kidnapping in Tamale.
Snippets of information
Pieces of information gathered by the Graphic Online since news on the alleged kidnapping broke last Saturday indicated that Hussein was the one who shot the video in the chamber of Mr Justice Ansu Gyeabour, a retired Appeal Court judge.
The family of a young man who had been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for defilement by a Tamale High Court appealed against the conviction and they are said to have gone to the judge’s chambers to see him to free the convict and Hussein is alleged to have secretly filmed what went on there.
According to sources, after the video on the alleged bribery scandal came out, Hussein went underground until he was spotted around the Tamale Polytechnic area where he was identified by Adamu as the one who had shot the video when the family of the young man went to see the judge in his chambers.
Trauma
Meanwhile, Hussein, after his rescue, said he had been traumatised by the abduction.