Kidnappers Confess To Killing Minor For Food In Adamawa

Two suspected Kidnapers, Husseini Suleiman and Muktar Mohammed have confessed to killing a six-year-old boy to raise money to buy food.

The suspects from Bashin village in Yoro local government area of Taraba State committed the crime in Ganye local government area of Adamawa State.

Adamawa State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, disclosed that the suspects confessed to abducting Ebuka Godwin to raise money for food.

The suspects were said to be Almajiris at Shiek Dahiru Ganye “Tsangaya” School in Ganye.

He confessed that they decided to kidnap their victim to collect ransom from his parents to buy food.

Narrating how they carried out the unlawful act, Husseini said the suspects cut sticks and made it look like guns with which they stormed the residence of the father of deceased in early May, 2024 and whisked away the victim.

After kidnapping the boy, the suspects called his father via on phone to demand a N10 million as ransom, and another N152,000 as feeding fee, the latter of which the victim’s father gave them.

Subsequent upon collecting the food money, the suspects confessed to strangulating their victim and bury his dead body in a sand.

They left the location and bought new phones from the money collected from the late Ebuka’s father.