Kidnappers kill abducted FCT chief, demand ₦90m ransom for his grandchildren, others in captivity
Kidnappers have murdered the abducted Dnako village head in Bwari Area Council of the FCT, HRH Etsu Yuda Garba, and threatened to kill two of his grandchildren, including five other residents who were abducted alongside the chief, if the family failed to pay the ransom.
A family member of the late village head, Mr. Tanko Baba, while giving update on the incident through telephone conversation on Tuesday, said the kidnappers’ leader called on Monday, saying the chief’s grandchildren and the five other residents were alive and healthy.
He said during the conversation, the family pleaded with the kidnappers to reduce the ransom price to a level that they could afford, and he agreed to reduce it from ₦100 million to ₦90 million.
He said, “It was my elder brother that spoke with the leader of the kidnappers on Monday around 11:23 am and during the conversation, their leader gave the phone to the chief’s grandchildren to confirm that they are alive alongside the five other residents.’’
He said their leader insisted on the ₦90 million ransom, adding that they threatened to kill one of the victims again should the family delay in raising the money.
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He said, “As I am talking to you right now, the family are in state of devastation because we don’t know how and where to raise such money. And that is how they threatened to kill the chief like play, at the end, they ended up killing him.”
It would be recalled that the kidnappers, on March 11, 2025, invaded Dnako village in Bwari around 12:03 am and abducted the late chief, two of his grandchildren, Ephraim and Philemon, alongside five other residents of the community.
The kidnappers, who had earlier demanded for ₦100 million, ended up killing the chief on Sunday because of delay in payment.
They later dumped his corpse at Knakuchi village under Kagarko LGA of Kaduna State.
The corpse of the late chief has been retrieved by vigilantes and buried in Dnako village in Bwari.
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