Salisu Salmanu and three of his friends Imrana Abdullahi, Abdullahi Mohammed and Umar Musa have been arrested by police detectives attached to the township division in Bauchi at about 12pm on February 28,2015 for kidnapping. Salisu claimed to be the nephew of Senator Bala Mohammed, the Federal Capital Territory Minister.
Salisu who conspired with four of his friends, agreed to kidnap one Abdulkadir Salmanu and three years old Kofar Idi, He took the kidnapped children to Gwalameji and demanded N10m ransom from their parents.
“The victim was liberated by the police and efforts are ongoing to apprehend the other fleeing suspects after which they will be charged to court.”
Salmanu who had the intention of spending the N10m on buying a car and sharing the remaining money with friends, blamed his action on greed and the devil.
In his words he said;
“Honestly, my father meets all my needs. He pays my school fees and every other thing I need.
“It is just greed and selfishness which the devil put in our hearts.”
Salmanu said he was a student of a federal polytechnic, adding that he had missed tests and lectures because he was in police custody.
He added that he would love to go back to school, finish his studies and put the incident behind him as what could be called mistakes of the youth.
The 19-year-old mastermind said he prayed that God would expose others who were into such “dirty act”.
He said, “By God’s grace, our hearts have totally changed since this is our first time of doing this, and we pray that God prevent a future recurrence.”
Another suspect, Mohammed, said they had no intention of harming the boy.
“We took the child, not with the intention of harming him, but so we could get money from his father and release him.
“We demanded N10m, but the father said he would pay N3m and we insisted it was too small. We finally agreed that he should pay N5m.
“Honestly, if we had succeeded, we would not have returned the money, but this would have been our first and last operation,” he said.
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