By SEGUN OLANIYAN

A housewife, Fatima Bishir 22, is now in the Police net for taking the Kidnap of her five-year-old daughter in Katsina.

SP Gambo Isah, the Katsina Police command spokesman disclosed this on Thursday while parading the suspect before newsmen in Katsina.

He said the suspect also faked the Kidnap of her daughter to implicate the fiancee of her husband whom his planning to remarry again.

According to him, on 5/07/2020 at 0800 hours, the suspect falsely reported at Mashi Police Division that her little daughter was missing and strongly suspected the ex-wife of her husband.

He added that, the suspect further lied that, the said ex-wife once threatened her that she will revenge the death of her daughter who died under her care.

“She mischievously then planted the clothes of her alleged missing daughter in the house of the ex-wife where the police recovered a red pants and canvas shoe belonging to the missing child to implicate her”.

After thorough investigation, the police image maker said the suspect confessed to be the originator of a text message sent to her husband, Bishir Isyaku aged 40 years old, threatening him to either pay the sum of two million naira or risk his daughter being killed by the kidnappers.

Similarly, the suspect also confessed to sending another threat text messages to the elder brother of the said Aisha, one Sani Musa, 28, and her ex-husband one Auwalu Halilu alias Al-Jazira aged 40 both of the same address implicating them to be among the kidnappers of her daughter.

He revealed that, during further investigations, the suspect confessed to have taken her daughter away from Mashi and hid her at Kano State through the aid of her housemaid to perfect the fake kidnap plot.

Gambo added that, however luck ran against the suspect when she took the said kidnapped baby girl in company of her house maid to Dutsi LGA of Katsina state where she was arrested by the police trying to abandon the child at house of the mother of the ex-wife with an attempt to implicating her. (Daily Independent)

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