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The Katsina State Police Command has apprehended one Jamilu Idris for allegedly abducting his four-year-old cousin brother, Umar Farouk Kabir.
The 39-year-old suspected kidnapper, who hails from Sabon-Fegi in Yankara village, Faskari Local Government Area of the state, was nabbed on October 9, 2021.
Idris, who is said to have no fewer than 41 Islamic pupils under his tutelage, learning Qur’an, lured the kidnapped teenager after drugging him.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Gambo Isah, who paraded the suspect alongside 13 other suspected criminals yesterday evening, said the suspect later demanded for N5,000,000 ransom.
Isah, a superintendent of police, added that the suspect abducted the victim at his father’s residence in Funtua Local Government Area of the state and took him to Dutsen-Alhaji in Abuja.
He said: “On October 25, 2021 at about 1100hrs, the Command succeeded in arresting one Jamilu Idris, aged 39 years of Sabon-Fegi, Yankara village, Faskari LGA of the state, an Islamic cleric, who masterminded the kidnapping of his causing, one Umar Farouk Kabir, aged 4years of the same address.
“In the course of investigation, suspect confessed that on 09/10/2021, at about 1430hrs, he went to the house of his uncle, one Kabir Abdullahi at Funtua, who was not at home and when his son Umar Farouk Kabir came out to see who was asking after his father, he recognised the suspect, who later deceptively gave the little boy a Viju drink and abducted him to Dutsen-Alhaji, Abuja.
“Subsequently, the suspect called the father (his uncle) through his GSM, changed his voice so that he couldn’t recognize him and threatened that he had kidnapped his son”.
Isah added: “He (Idris) further confessed to have demanded the payment of N5,000,000:00 ransom but the father said he can only afford to pay him the sum of N500,000:00”.
