A 23-years-old man, Kamal
Bala Yunusa, has been arrested by the Katsina State Police Command in
connection with alleged kidnap of his three-year-old nephew.
The victim’s mother and Kamal are reportedly of
the same parents.
According to the command, the child was rescued
from a hotel in Katsina, where he had been drugged with “a cough mixture,”
before the police revived him in a hospital at about 3 am on Friday.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the
state, Salisu Agaisa, told journalists during a parade of Kamal and another
suspect, Muhammed Abubakar Sadiq, on Friday evening, that both suspects, along
with two other suspects, Abubakar Idris and Dabo Muhammed, said to be in
Kaduna, “conspired to kidnap the child for a ransom of N4m from Tundun Wada
area in Kaduna.”
The suspects were also accused of stealing the
Peugeot 407 with which they allegedly ferried the victim from Kaduna.
Kamal said his intention was to sell the car
for N700,000, but that he only brought the toddler and the other suspects to
Katsina to divert attention from his main intention.
According to the command, efforts were being
made by the police to return the boy to Kaduna.
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