An undergraduate who masterminded the kidnap of his sister in Yola, Adamawa State, has given the reason he did so.
The state police command arrested the 22-year-old student, Abdul Basit Umar, of Modibo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State, for kidnapping Amina Umar, his 10-year-old sister, and demanding for a N10 million ransom.
According to Umar, he needed the money to travel out of the country.
“if I kidnap my junior sister, I will get N10 million. My aim is if I get the money, I will go abroad,” he told journalists in Pidgin.
‘The Punch’ also reports that Umar was arrested alongside two of his accomplices, Sadiq Dalhatu Sani (21) and Abdullahi Habib (27), whom he hired to carry out the act.
Parading the suspects at the Taraba State Police Command in Jalingo alongside 19 other kidnappers and armed robbers apprehended in Gassol, Bali and other parts of Taraba State, the command warned that it would not tolerate any criminal activity in the State.
Taraba State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP David Misal, while parading the suspects said Abdubasit Umar who happened to be a biological brother to the victim had on the said date criminally conspired with other suspects and lured the innocent girl into a Blue Honda Hennessy with registration N0. MKF 67JK Kaduna, and took her to Dove Hotel Mayo Dassa, where she was held captive.
According to him, the suspects contacted the family and demanded a ransom of N10 million, but later accepted to collect the sum of N4 million.
He added that they were arrested while trying to collect the said ransom at Wuro-Sambe, Jalingo, by the intelligence squad of the command.
