Nigeria Police Force
Osun Police Command has announced the arrest of a 27-year-old man, Isa Adamu, who allegedly conspired with others to kidnap and later murder his 55-year-old father.
It was gathered that before he murdered his father, Ibrahim Adamu, Adamu (suspect) had successfully collected ransom from his family.
Osun Commissioner of Police, Fimihan Adeoye, while parading suspects at the Police Command in Osogbo, told newsmen that on April 27, Adamu (father) was kidnapped in his house in Ede, Osun, and driven away in his car by a gang of kidnappers.
The prime suspect, Jola-Anabi Saheed who later jumped bail was reported to the police and charged to court for the kidnapping.
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.
Concise also learned the suspects killed their victim after collecting N3 million ransom from his family.
He said the suspects 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.
CP added 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.