The operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command have arrested a man and his wife for allegedly stealing their neighbour’s two-year-old son.
This was made known by the State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Ramhan Nansel aid on Thursday in Lafia while speaking with journalists.
Nansel disclosed that the father of the victim, Adamu Abdullahi of Orange Market, Mararaba, Karu Local Government Area, reported to the Police on Aug. 13 at about 3:30 pm, that his two-year-old son had been missing for almost two weeks.
He said the complainant also told the police that he had received a phone call on the same day from an unknown person demanding a ransom of N2 million.
Nansel explained that police detectives were immediately deployed in search of the missing child, and their efforts led to the arrest of the prime suspect and three accomplices.
He said the prime suspect, who is a neighbour to the victim’s father, confessed, upon interrogation, to have connived with the other suspects, all of Orange Market, to steal the child.
He further said that the suspect also confessed to the detectives that he handed the child over to his wife, who took him to Katsina State.
Nansel said the police trailed the suspect’s wife to Katsina State, arrested her, and recovered the child, who has been reunited with his parents.
