A 17-year-old Teenager has been arrested by the Plateau state command of the Nigerian Police for criminal conspiracy, Kidnapping and Culpable homicide.
Commissioner of Police , Plateau state Command, Julius Alawari while addressing Journalists in Jos today said, the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, Jos received a phone call that one Dawon Pam aged, 5 years-old is missing and that all search throughout the night proved abortive.
However the Commissioner said in the early hours of staurday 14th October, 2023, a day after Master Pam went missing a pair of shoes belonging to the victim was found close to a handwritten note stating that “If he wants his child, he should give Five Million Naira (N5,000,000.00) and that he should not call them but he should send a text message through the phone number below”.
Upon receipt of the report, a team of Police operatives led by SP Okala Ugbede swung into action and was able to trace the kidnappers and arrested one of the culprits, Elijah Anthony a 17-Year-old teenager who lives in the same compound with the victim.
The police commissioner said during interrogation Mr. Anthony confessed to have conspired with one AKA Malic ‘m’ of no fixed address and kidnapped the victim from his father’s compound to an uncompleted building in the community where they kept him and tied his mouth with elastic dural cloth to stop him from shouting.
He also confessed that after collecting the sum of Four Hundred Thousand Naira (N400,000.00) from the victim’s parents, his accomplice the said Malic who is now at large strangled the victim while he held his hands and legs.
Thereafter, they took the body and dumped it in a swampy place close to the uncompleted building.
The police acting on the information gathered during interrogation visited the scene where they recovered the corpse and took it to the Plateau State Hospital for confirmation and necessary action after which it was released to the parents for burial.
CP Julius said Investigation is still ongoing with a view to arresting the fleeing suspect and any other accomplice.
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