(Top, from left) Nikson and Braun (Bottom, from left) Badong and Kadafi. The notorious Muktadir brothers were involved in several illegal activities including several kidnap-forransom raids in Sabah. Nikson and Badong are on the run.
Two Muktadir brothers, notorious for staging kidnap-for-ransom raids in Sabah, abandoned their injured sibling in a hospital and fled - minutes before security forces arrived to nab them.
Nikson Muktadir and Badong at Adzmil Muktadir were in a hospital in Jolo, Philippines with their brother Kadafi Kamsa, who was injured in a motorcycle accident on Saturday afternoon while trying to rob another motorcyclist in Panamao, Sulu. Kadafi had been armed with a handgun.
He reportedly rammed his motorcycle into the other vehicle, causing the accident, which resulted in him suffering head injuries.
The other motorcyclist, who suffered a fractured leg, picked up the gun.
Nikson and Badong later brought Kadafi to the Jolo provincial hospital.
Soon after, police and the military were tipped off that the Abu Sayyaf-linked militants were there.
However, by the time they arrived, Nikson and Badong had fled, leaving only Kadafi to be arrested.
Kadafi's capture has tightened the noose around the most wanted cross-border kidnap-for-ransom group closely linked to the Abu Sayyaf militants.
Kadafi and his late twin brother Mindas were the more active of the Muktadir siblings, who had been involved in several kidnappings.
The two were involved in the brazen kidnapping of Bernard Then and Thien Nyuk Fun from a restaurant in mainland Sandakan on May 14.
A week after the kidnapping, Philippines police shot Mindas dead in Jolo.
Philippines Commander for the Joint Task Group Sulu, Brig Gen Alen Arrojado said a manhunt was on for Nikson and Badong. (In December, police arrested a man resembling Nikson in Sabah but he was later found to be someone else.)
Intelligence sources believe Kadafi could also be involved in the killing of Taiwanese tourist Hsu Li Min, 57, and the kidnapping of his wife Chan An Wei, 58, from Pom Pom Resort in Semporna on Nov 15.
They also believe that he was involved in the Kunak kidnapping of a fish farm owner on June 16 2014.
Philippines Commander for the Joint Task Group Sulu Brig Gen Alen Arrojado said steps were being taken to charge Kadafi, who was using his alias of Amin Maing, for the kidnapping cases.
"We are in the process of removing him from the hospital to take him to Zamboanga City where he will be charged," he said.
Brig Gen Arrojado said security forces had been beefed up around the hospital for any retaliatory attacks by the militant group.
"We want justice for Then's family," Brig Gen Arrojado said, adding that his men were still trying to locate Then's body, believed to be buried in the Indanan area.
Then's head was found in a gunny sack in Jolo town after negotiations over his ransom failed.
Nikson and Badong reportedly command over 40 men, operating from their base in Tawi Tawi, which shares the sea border with Sabah's east coast.
The siblings' father was a well-known pirate in the late 1980s and the family have lived in and out of Semporna over many years.
At least five or six brothers are active members of the kidnap-for-ransom group, which also works for Abu Sayyaf under sub-commanders Indang Susukan, Alhabsy Misaya, Anga Adji and Yasser Igasan.
Kadafi's arrest came two days after Philippine security forces nabbed Saddam Jailani, believed to be a members of the Abu Sayyaf group under Misaya, who beheaded Then on Nov 17.
http://news.asiaone.com/news/malaysia/pirate-siblings-flee-minutes-security-forces-arrive-nab-them
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