3 youths sent to prison for kidnapping 4-year-old boy

• Insecurity in Nigeria takes different dimensions almost on daily basis
• Apprenticing bandits kidnapped a toddler in Kano

Three youths learning the art of kidnapping have been arrested and remanded in correctional center in Kano State.

The novice – Hizbullah Salisu, Aliyu Abubakar and Hassan Aliyu – allegedly kidnapped one 4-year-old Muhammad Nasir, and demanded ₦10 million ransom.

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The victim was Salisu’s cousin. And when negotiation began the kidnappers finally accept ₦300,000, yet they were tracked and arrested on September 7.

But when the suspects were brought before Magistrate Rakiya Lami Sani of a Magistrate’ Court at Gayadi Gyadi in Kumbotso local government area, they pleaded not guilty.

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Probably in anger, the Magistrate ordered that they be sent to correctional center, while adjourning their re-arraingnment until October 30.

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