Tuesday, December 16, 2025 -The Niger State Police Command has arrested a notorious suspected child kidnapper, Aminu Ahmed, in Kontagora.
The spokesperson of the command, Wasiu Abiodun, who
disclosed this in a statement on Monday, December 15, 2025 said the suspect
abducted three children in Kontagora and collected over N2m ransom from their
families before releasing them.
According to the PPRO, the suspect was arrested on November
27, 2025 at about 7pm, by police operatives of the Force Intelligence Department (FID),
Special Tactical Squad (STS) following technical intelligence
received about the abduction of the children.
In the course of investigation, the suspect revealed that
within January 2025, he took a boy of about 3yrs around Samaru, Kontagora which
he abducted for four days and traveled with the boy to Lagos.
He confessed that during his journey, he contacted the
father of the victim and requested for ten-million-naira ransom, and he later
received N1.4m through different POS points before returning the boy to a
location around a radio station in Kotangora as a missing and found child,
while he escaped.
“In continuation of his escapades, he abducted another boy
of 4yrs in May within Kotangora, took him to Lagos and stayed for three days.
He also contacted the family of the victim and requested for another ten-million-naira
ransom. He later received five hundred thousand naira. He returned and dropped
the boy at a location within Mashegu LGA, and informed the parents where to
pick up the victim,” the statement read.
"In November, he picked a 3-year-old boy in GRA
Kotangora, took him to Ilorin, Kwara State where he stayed for three days and
contacted the father. He requested for five million naira and later received
three hundred and fifty thousand naira.
“He dropped the victim in Kaboji, Mashegu LGA. He further
claimed that he was duped, of over N1.8m proceeds of crime, during a business
of mining investment he did. The suspect is under further investigation.
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