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Kidnappers collect feeding money, demand N10m ransom after killing victim
Two young men hailing from Taraba state, who had crossed into neighbouring Adamawa to carry out a kidnapping scheme, have admitted to killing a specific victim after receiving money for the victim’s food.
The suspects have also confessed to demanding a hefty N10 million ransom, fully aware that all they could provide was the lifeless body of their victim.
Revealed by the Adamawa state police command on Friday, May 10, the suspects were reported to have been prompt in acquiring funds for food from the victim’s parents as they awaited the demanded ransom money.
The statement, signed by the police public relations officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje, detailed that on Wednesday, May 8, Edwin Eze from Tudun Wada in Ganye LGA reported that kidnappers had stormed his residence in the night, taking away his 6-year-old son, Eboka Edwin.
Following the abduction, the kidnappers made a phone call, demanding N10 million for the safe return of Eboka Edwin – on top of the N152,000 already received from Eze for the feeding of his son.
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The command stated: “On the strength of that, the Commissioner of Police, Adamawa State Command, CP Dankombo Morris, raised detectives led by SP Mohammed Yahaya Nuhu, Divisional Police officer (DPO) Ganye to rescue the victim.
It added that the team swung into action and arrested two suspects: Muktar Mohammed, aged 20 years, and Hussein Suleiman, also aged 20 years, both residents of Bashin Village, Yoro Local Government Area of Taraba state.
“During preliminary investigations, the suspects confessed that they conspired and jointly kidnapped the victim to a forest lying across the border between Nigeria and Cameroon Republic.
“They added that they killed the victim by inflicting severe injuries on him using a knife, after which he bled until he became dead. Thereafter, they buried the corpse in a shallow grave and kept demanding ransom, until their arrest,” the Adamawa state police command stated.
It added that three phones were recovered from the victims.
The command said the state police commissioner commiserates with the bereaved family on the unfortunate incident and reaffirms the Command’s commitment to combating all forms of crime.
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