The victim, identified as Sergeant Bulama Aji, was serving at 3 Division of the Nigerian Army, Jos, Plateau State.
It was gathered that the soldier was travelling back to Jos when he was killed.
Sergeant Aji, who was dressed in mufti, was shot after he identified himself as a soldier when the bus was stopped by the hoodlums, who are suspected to be either armed robbers or kidnappers.
Eye witnesses said the soldier died on the spot.
Meanwhile,
Two brothers identified as Fortunate Osuji, 25, and Praise Osuji, 17, have been arrested by the Police in Imo state for conniving with other members of a kidnap gang, to abduct their youngest brother, Confidence Osuji, 14, so as to extort 7 million naira from their grandfather.
The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Isaac Akinmoyede, who disclosed this to newsmen, said the Osuji brothers lost their parents in 2009 and were taken in by their grandfather, Chief Chukwuma Osuji, who is said to be the traditional Prime Minister of his village, Emekuku in Owerri North local government area of the state.
The Police Commissioner said on June 10, 2020, at 6:30pm, the distraught grandfather visited the Anti-Kidnapping Squad in the state where he reported that one of his grandsons, Confidence, was kidnapped at Ezedibia Emekuku in Owerri North local government area of Imo State.
The police boss said the Squad’s Commander, Linus Nwaiwu (Superintendent of Police) and his operatives, through technical intelligence device, was able to track the kidnappers to their location, Amaiyii-Amate Ikeduru L.G.A, Imo State, on June 11, 2020, with the exception of their gang leader, Nelson Dike, from Obowo Council Area, but resident at Saint Christiana Hospital Road, Egbu, Owerri North L.G.A. and still at large.
According to the report, all the other gang members were arrested, besides Fortunate and his younger brother, Praise.
Police listed the gang members to include: Bernard Ugo, from Mbano L.G.A, Imo State but resident somewhere in Orji, Owerri. Bernard is said to be the one who threatened the grandfather to pay 7 million naira or else they would use Confidence for rituals.
In an interview the embattled grandfather expressed shock that his own grandchildren could hatch and execute such an evil plan.
He said when he did not he his grandson, he immediately reported the case to the Anti-Kidnapping Squad, then the kidnappers started calling him demanding for 7 million naira, threatening to use him for ritual if he refused to pay the ransom
When interrogated, the mastermind of the kidnap, Fortunate who is the eldest of the three said he was waiting for his NYSC.
He said they started planning the kidnap in 2017 and I had to win the heart of his younger brother, Praise, to agree with him and later contracted his five gang members of kidnappers to execute it on June 10, 2020.
