Police rescue 7-year-old abducted in Borno

The Borno State Police Command has rescued a 7-year-old lad who was allegedly kidnapped successful Maiduguri. The constabulary besides arrested 5 suspects linked to the incident, portion besides recovering portion of the ransom paid by the victim’s family.
The command’s spokesperson, ASP Nahum Kenneth Daso disclosed this successful a statement. He said the rescue followed a coordinated probe by detectives of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) successful Maiduguri.

According to the statement, the lawsuit was reported connected March 24, 2026, erstwhile a nonmigratory of Chad Basin country of Maiduguri informed the constabulary that his 7-year-old lad had been abducted the erstwhile time astatine astir 6:40 p.m by unidentified persons.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the kidnappers aboriginal contacted the child’s parent utilizing a backstage telephone fig and demanded a ransom of N10 million, which was yet negotiated down to N8 million. The household subsequently paid N1.5 cardinal into a Point of Sale (POS) relationship provided by the suspects.

“Police detectives, utilizing integer forensic investigation traced the relationship utilized to person the outgo to a POS relation identified arsenic Musa Mohammed Bashir, who was arrested. His apprehension led to the a...