Katsina: Police to arraign neighbour, five others over kidnap of schoolboy 

Katsina State Police Command says it volition arraign a neighbour to the household of an eight-year-old lad and 5 others arrested implicit the kidnapping of the kid successful Katsina metropolis.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Aliyu, disclosed this successful a connection connected Sunday, noting that the suspects were arrested by the recently established Violent Crime Response Unit of the command.

He said the unfortunate was abducted connected May 13, 2026, portion returning from an Islamic school, aft which the suspects aboriginal contacted the household and demanded N50 cardinal ransom.

According to him, pursuing negotiations, the household paid N17 cardinal earlier the unfortunate was released.

Aliyu said operatives of the portion launched an probe aft the incidental and, acting connected credible intelligence, tracked and arrested six members of the syndicate connected May 23, 2026.

He identified the suspects arsenic Nura Aliyu (39), the alleged mastermind and neighbour to the victim’s family, Abubakar Aminu (37), Ibrahim Muhammad (51), Iliyasu Sani (51), Abubakar Muhammad (27), and Abdullahi Isma’il (30).

He added that the suspects confessed to the transgression and mentioned different accomplice presently astatine large, portion exhibits were recovered from them.

Recovered items see a Peugeot 307 vehicle, a Boxer motorcycle, and N7.5 cardinal believed to beryllium portion of the ransom ...