Kano State Police Command has arrested two suspected kidnappers for abducting two children.
The children, aged three and four, were rescued by police operatives from where they were kept in an uncompleted building.
The suspects were identified as Nura Auwal, aged 22, of Rijiyar Lemo Quarters Kano, and Abubakar Lawal, also 22 years old from Bachirawa Quarters.
The police spokesman, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who spoke on the arrest, said that the command had earlier got reports from the fathers of the victims, Isyaku Salisu and Auwal Sale, residing at Bachirawa Quarters, Ungogo Local Government Area, that their children, Umar Isyaku (three), and Aliyu Auwal, (four) had been kidnapped.
They told the police that handwritten notes on which mobile phone numbers and bank account details were written were sent to them for communication and payment of N20 million as ransom.
They also said that after negotiation, the abductors agreed at N2 million.
Kiyawa said that the report made the state Commissioner of Police, Mamman Dauda, to direct teams of Operation Restore Peace, led by SP Aliyu Muhammad Auwal, Officer in Charge of Anti-Kidnapping Squad, State Criminal Investigation Department, to rescue the victims and arrest the culprits.
The PPRO said: “The teams swung into action. Sustained efforts, coupled with intelligence-led operations, resulted in the arrest of two suspects; one Nura Auwal, ‘m’, 22 years old, of Rijiyar Lemo Quarters Kano, and his accomplice, one Abubakar Lawal, ‘m’, 22 years old, of Bachirawa Quarters Kano. Victims were rescued unhurt at an uncompleted building.
“On preliminary investigation, the suspects confessed to having conspired and kidnapped the two children and sent letters to their parents with phone numbers and bank account details, requesting a ransom.”
He stated further that the suspects would be charged to court after the completion of investigation.
