Taraba, Nigeria – The operatives of Adamawa State Police Command have arrested two suspected male Kidnapers for the killing of a six-year-old boy to raise money to buy food.
The suspects identified as Husseini Suleiman and Muktar Mohammed hail from Bashin village in Yoro local government area of Taraba State confessed committing the act.
As gathered, they committed the crime in Ganye local government area of Adamawa State.
Adamawa State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, made it known that the suspects confessed to abducting Ebuka Godwin to raise money for food.
The suspects were said to be Almajiris at Shiek Dahiru Ganye “Tsangaya” School in Ganye.
After kidnapping the boy from his residence in early May 2024, the suspects called his father via phone to demand a N10 million as ransom, and another N152,000 as feeding fee, the latter of which the victim’s father gave them.
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Subsequent upon collecting the food money, the suspects confessed to strangulating their victim and bury his dead body in a sand.
They left the location and bought new phones from the money collected from the late Ebuka’s father.