Man arrested over kidnap, killing of four-year-old in Bauchi

A 20-year-old suspect, Rabiu Safiyanu, is successful constabulary custody successful transportation with a kidnapping incidental that resulted successful the decease of a four-year-old boy, the Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed.

The command’s spokesman, Nafiu Habib, successful a connection connected Sunday, explained that detectives attached to the ‘C’ Divisional Headquarters successful Bauchi, led by the Divisional Police Officer, effected the apprehension pursuing a reported lawsuit of a missing child.

The reported case, according to the statement, was made connected Saturday, March 21, by 1 Salisu Yunusa of Nasarawa Madina Quarters, stating that his son, Yunusa Salisu, had gone missing connected March 18.

The begetter further explained that connected March 19, 2026, helium received a telephone from an unidentified fig demanding a ransom of N500,000, retired of which helium paid N100,000, but the kid was not released.

He said that probe into the substance led to the apprehension of 1 Rabiu Safiyanu, 20, of the aforesaid address, a person of the complainant’s younger member who had escaped entree to the house.

According to Habib, “During interrogation, the fishy reportedly confessed to abducting the child, strangling him, and dumping his assemblage astatine Warinje Hills earlier making further ransom demands.”

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