From Maiharaji Altine
The Zamfara state police command has arrested a 20 year old boy for allegedly conniving with five other persons and abducting his mother and three others and collected the sum of N30m as ransom.
Addressing journalists in Gusau on Friday, the spokesperson of the command SP Mohammed Shehu said, the suspect, Thomas Ya,u confessed that he and five other persons had connived and abducted his own mother and three others where the sum of N30 million was paid to them.
The suspect according to Shehu had informed the police that, the sum of N10m was paid by the three kidnapped victims including his own mother totalling the sum of N30 million.
Shehu said, “On 12th February 2023, Zamfara Police Command through its Community Policing engagement acted on intelligence information that led to the bursting of kidnapping syndicate and the arrest of sir suspected kidnappers who have been terrorizing different villages in Kaduna, Kano and other neighbouring states such as Zamfara, Sokoto and so on.
“In the course of investigation, it was discovered that the suspects have carried out series of kidnapping where unspecified number of people were abducted and millions of Naira collected as ransom”.
“Each suspect further narrated the number of kidnapping he participated as well as the role he played in each kidnapping”.
“Surprisingly, one of the suspects, Thomas Ya’u confessed that, sometimes last year he masterminded the kidnapping of his biological mother and three three others, as a result of the kidnapping”.
“They collected the sum of thirty million Naira from the relations as ransom, and in turn he was given one million as his share”.
Shehu maintained that the case was under discreet Investigation and the suspects would be charged to court for prosecution.
