teenager and one other person have been arrested by Niger State police command for allegedly kidnapping and killing a 13-year-old boy, Yasir Salisu.
The suspects were said to have buried the body in a shallow grave by a river.
It was learnt that the victim went missing on July 29. While the suspects buried the body in a shallow grave by the riverside.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abiodun Wasiu, in a statement said the suspects, Nafiu Umar, 18, and Usman Sabiu, 22, confessed to kidnapping the victim.
The police spokesperson added that the suspects confessed that they kidnapped their victim to collect a ransom from his father, The Punch reports.
“Usman Sabiu confessed to having conspired with Nafiu Umar and abducted the missing person to the house of Nafiu with the intention of collecting N100,000 from the victim’s father.
“Unfortunately, he claimed that the victim could not produce the father’s contact to demand ransom and both suspects were identified by the victim, who are neighbours, hence the victim was strangled and killed by the suspects,” the statement read.
