A 20-year old man, Abubakar Amodu, has been arrested by the police for masterminding the kidnap of his father for N2 million ransom.
Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CP Frank Mba, made this known, Wednesday in Abuja while parading Amodu, alongside 25 other suspects arrested for various offences.
The suspect, who was arrested with other members of the gang, said he worked with his father on the farm rearing cattle and he had forced his father to give him 15 cows and he left home.
According to him, he got friendly with members of a gang and they suggested that his father was rich and could pay ransom if they kidnapped him.
He confessed to arranging with the gang to kidnap his father as well as that he received N200, 000 as his share of the ransom.
The police spokesperson also paraded a security guard with Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Abubakar Liyu, who worked with kidnappers to abduct lecturers and terrorise the university community.
Liyu, who confessed that he had organised the kidnap of three lecturers, said he got N30,000 the first two times, but got nothing for the third one.
Similarly, one Friday Domozu from Kogi state was also paraded for leading a gang that kidnapped and murdered a five-year-old girl, Farida Ibrahim, in Dekina.
Mba said the gang had demanded N8 million ransom from the family who could not afford it and had contacted the police.
However, before the kidnappers could be arrested, they had killed and buried the girl in a shallow grave where the body was subsequently dug up by the police.
He said an autopsy showed evidence of violence on the girl, even as the police found another body buried in another shallow grave by the same gang.
Also paraded was one Umar Jafaru Sulaiman, from Plateau State, who provided prayers for members of his gang, so God will protect them and grant them success in their criminal activities.
The police also paraded members of a gang, who killed an Immigration officer, his wife and his sister after holding them hostage in June 2020.
Items recovered from the suspects, the spokesperson said included: five AK-47 with magazines and live ammunitions, and N765, 000.
