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| Salisu Salmanu wanted to extort money from his father, so he kidnapped his 3-year-old brother. |
A 19-year-old Accountancy student of the Federal
Polytechnic, Bauchi, Salisu Salmanu, has been arrested after he connived
with seven others to kidnap his three-year-old step-brother, at Kofar Idi area of the state.
In his confession to the police, Salmanu said he wanted to use the N10 million ransom his gang demanded from his father to buy a car.
Paraded
alongside Salmanu at the state Police Command Headquarters were his
friends and gang members, Imrana Abdullahi (17), Abdullahi Mohammed (19)
and Umar Musa (19).
Salmanu lamented his
involvement in the crime, saying that greed and selfishness were
responsible for his action, as his father, Salmanu Mohammed, the elder
brother to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator
Bala Mohammed, had been taking good care of him and providing for his
needs, though there were times he could not meet some of the needs.
Hear him:
"Initially,
when we planned the kidnap, I was advised that if we succeeded in
getting N10 million, we would buy a car and also have money left to
spend. I know that if I demanded such money from my father, he would
refuse because he would tell me he has three wives and would have to
cater for other children.
So, I planned
with my friends to kidnap my step-brother, who is three years old, with
the intention that my friends would call him and demand for ransom,
after which I would collect my own share if paid.
Honestly,
my father meets 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 that led me into this."
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