Two young men from Taraba state who crossed to neighbouring Adamawa to perpetuate kidnapping have confessed to killing a particular victim after collecting money to feed the victim.

The suspects have similarly owned up to insisting on being paid N10 million ransom even as they knew that the best they could do was to present the lifeless body of their victim.

The Adamawa state police command which disclosed this on Friday, May 10, explained that the suspects had been fast in collecting feeding money from the parents of their victim while they waited for the parents to raise ransom money.

The command, In the statement signed by police public relations officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje, said that on Wednesday, May 8, it received a report from Edwin Eze, a resident of Tudun Wada in Ganye LGA, that on the night of the same date, Kidnappers invaded his house and took away his 6-year-old son, Eboka Edwin.

According to the command, the kidnappers later called on the phone and demanded N10 million as ransom, which became additional to the sum of N152,000, they received from Eze for the feeding of his son.

The command stated: “On the strength of that, the Commissioner of Police, Adamawa State Command, CP Dankombo Morris, raised detectives led by SP Mohammed Yahaya Nuhu, Divisional Police officer (DPO) Ganye to rescue the victim.

It added that the team swung into action and arrested two suspects: Muktar Mohammed, aged 20 years, and Hussein Suleiman, also aged 20 years, both residents of Bashin Village, Yoro Local Government Area of Taraba state.

“During preliminary investigations, the suspects confessed that they conspired and jointly kidnapped the victim to a forest lying across the border between Nigeria and Cameroon Republic.

“They added that they killed the victim by inflicting severe injuries on him using a knife, after which he bled until he became dead. Thereafter, they buried the corpse in a shallow grave and kept demanding ransom, until their arrest,” the Adamawa state police command stated.

It added that three phones were recovered from the victims.

The command said the state police commissioner commiserates with the bereaved family on the unfortunate incident and reaffirms the Command’s commitment to combating all forms of crime. (The Nation: Text, Excluding Headline)

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