Police rescue four-year-old boy, arrest two kidnap suspects in Bauchi

The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested 2 suspected kidnappers and rescued a four-year-old lad pursuing a swift, intelligence-led cognition successful Bauchi.

The command’s spokesperson, SP Nafiu Habib, successful a connection issued connected Friday, said detectives from the State Intelligence Department successfully tracked and apprehended the suspects aft receiving a kidnapping ailment from the victim’s father.

“On June 10, 2026, the Command acted connected a ceremonial ailment of kidnapping lodged by a 45-year-old father, a nonmigratory of Gida Dudu Housing Estate, Bauchi. The complainant reported that his son, Musa (surname withheld), a four-year-old boy, was abducted from the frontage of their residence,” the connection said.

Investigations revealed that 1 of the suspects, identified arsenic Muhammad Usman, 39, allegedly lured the kid distant from his location connected June 9 and subsequently took him to the residence of the 2nd suspect, Hayatudeen Ahmad, 40, who resides successful the aforesaid estate.

According to the statement, to conceal his crime, Muhammad Usman deceived Hayatudeen Ahmad, claiming the lad was his sister’s lad and that she was critically ill. He further claimed it was excessively precocious to question to...