Man arrested for kidnapping, killing father after collecting N3m ransom
On Tuesday, Isa Adamu, a 27-year-old man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and later killing his 55-year-old father Ibrahim Adamu in Osun.
Isa was said to have planned the kidnap in a bid to collect ransom from his family.
The Osun state police commissioner, Fimihan Adeoye said investigation revealed that Ibrahim at his house in Ede, and after the case was reported to the police, a prime suspect, Jola-Anabi Saheed was arrested. The suspect, however, later jumped bail.
Adeoye said the action of the prime suspect led to further investigation by the police, which resulted in the arrest of three other suspects, including the son of the kidnapped victim.
He said the police, after interrogating the three suspects, discovered that it was the son of the suspect that hired the others and the fugitive prime suspect to kidnap his father.
He said it was also discovered that the suspects killed their victim after collecting N3 million ransom from his family.
The suspects, according to Adeoye, confessed to have buried their victim’s body near a river and it is now believed that the corpse had been washed away by the river.
He said the son of the kidnapped victim confessed to the police that his accomplices promised to give him N500,000 from the ransom collected from his family but only gave him N45,000.
Adeoye said another four-man robbery gang, terrorising Owode, Ede, Osogbo and it’s environs was also arrested by the police and two vehicles, electronics and other items were recovered from the gang.
He said a Hummer Bus that was stolen in Osun in August was recovered in Abeokuta, Ogun from the buyer. The recovery of the bus, he said, also led to the recovery of five other stolen vehicles through SARS investigation.
