A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kaduna Wednesday ordered that a 34-year-old businessman, Yakubu Aminu, who allegedly kidnapped a five-year-old boy be remanded in a correctional facility pending legal advice.
Magistrate Umar Ibrahim, did not take the plea of Aminu, on grounds that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter.
Ibrahim, ordered the police to forward the case file to the Department of Public Prosecution for advice.
He adjourned the matter to February 12 for hearing.
The police charged Aminu, who resides at Shanono Rigasa, Kaduna state with criminal conspiracy and kidnapping, contrary to sections 59 and 258 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law .
The Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Chidi Leo, told the court that the complainant, Kabiru Mohammed, who lives at Rigasa Kaduna reported the matter at the police station on January 11.
Leo alleged that on January 10, at about 4p.m., the defendant abducted the complainant’s five-year-old son who was sent by his mother to buy some soup ingredients around the neighbourhood.
The prosecutor said, on January 11, the complainant received a phone call by a person demanding ransom of N500,000 before his son can be released. (NAN)
