Police in Oyo state arrests 20 year old boy who kidnapped his father and collected N1m ransom
The Oyo state police command have arrested 20 year old Ibrahim Aliyu Babatunde, for conniving with three of his friends to kidnap his father and then collected N1 million as ransom for his release.
Aliyu and three others namely Babuga
Salihu (20), Aura Sands (20), and Amuda Yusufu (19), kidnapped his
father, Aliyu Babatunde, at his Igboora home town on My 17th They held
him for 3 days before releasing him after his family had paid N1 million
ransom.
The gang were
recently apprehended by the police and were paraded at the state command
headquarters in Ibadan. When interrogated, Ibrahim said he organized
his father's abduction becausehe has refused to cater for him and his siblings.
According to Ibrahim, his father has
many wives and has not been responsible for the upkeep of his many
children. He says he felt that the only way to get money from his father
was to organize his abduction.
“We are many. My father married many wives and he doesn’t care for us. We are left by my father to fend for ourselves. So, I think the only way to get money out of him is to organise for his abduction and force him to part with the money.”
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