Two nabbed in Adamawa over alleged abduction of child

Two radical person been nabbed successful Adamawa State for allegedly abducting a four-year-old kid and demanding for ransom.

The Adamawa State Police Command arrested the 2 suspected kidnappers successful transportation with the abduction of the four-year-old lad successful Ngballang, a assemblage successful Numan Local Government Area.

The Police authorities said connected Friday that the incidental was reported connected March 2, 2026, erstwhile Umar Ibrahim, a nonmigratory of Ngballang, lodged a ailment astatine the Numan Police Division that his son, Ramadan, had gone retired to play connected March 1 but failed to instrumentality home.

According to the authorities, archetypal efforts by the household and assemblage members to find the kid were unsuccessful, lone for the begetter to person a telephone a fewer days aboriginal from an chartless fig informing him that his lad had been kidnapped.

The kidnappers allegedly demanded a ransom of ₦800,000 for the child’s release.

According to the authorities Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje, pursuing the report, operatives attached to the Numan Division launched an probe which led to the apprehension of the 2 suspects identified arsenic Sadiq Ali, 19, and Shitu Umar, 23, some residents of Lafiya ...