The Nasarawa State Police Command has apprehended three individuals believed to be involved in the kidnapping of a two-year-old boy in the Karu Local Government Area of the state.

The Police Public Relations Officer for the state, DSP Ramhan Nansel, revealed this information during a press conference at the command’s headquarters in Lafia.

The suspects were paraded alongside 16 others who were arrested for various criminal activities in the state.

DSP Ramhan Nansel elucidated that the child had been missing for a period of two weeks before the parents approached the police to initiate a search for the kidnappers, who were demanding a ransom.

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He narrated, “On 13/08/2023 at about 3:30 pm, one Adamu Abdullahi ‘M’ of Orange market, Mararaba, Karu LGA, reported that his two-year-old son had been missing for two weeks and all efforts to trace his whereabouts proved abortive.”

The police swiftly formed a team of detectives to track down the abductors. Subsequently, the trio of Abubakar Saidu (38 years old), Yusuf Yusuf (23 years old), and Haruna Garba (50 years old), all residing in the Orange market, were apprehended in connection with the crime.

Nansel further detailed, “Upon interrogation, Abubakar Saidu (a neighbour to the complainant) confessed to having conspired with the above-mentioned suspects to kidnap the two-year-old child and handed him to one Salamatu Abubakar (his wife) who took the child to Katsina State.

She was trailed and arrested, and the child was rescued and re-united with his parents.”