Our correspondents report that Aminu’s son, Aliyu, was kidnapped on Tuesday while returning from an Islamic school located a stone throw from his father’s residence in Naibawa quarters in Kumbotso Local Government Area of the state.
It was learnt that one of the kidnappers disguised as a student of the school and deceived the boy. After taking him away, the kidnapers established contact with the boy’s father around 7pm on the same day.
Speaking to Sunday Trust, Aminu said about two hours after his son was declared missing, an almajiri brought a letter from the kidnappers, which reads: “If really your son is missing contact us on this number”.
“Without any delay I called the number but it was not going. Then I sent a text message to them and after two minutes they called me. He told me that he knows me very well that he is working with somebody who had sold my son to somebody for N30m but that he would assist me.
“He said for him to assist me I will give him something. I asked him what does he want and he said, no that I should tell him what I will give him. I said N1m but he said no that it was too small. He now said N10m, but after several negotiations he agreed to collect N5m. That was around 9pm on Tuesday.
“He then asked me that I should pay him the money immediately, but I told him that I can only give him N1m because it was already late that day. Meanwhile, we have already contacted the police, in fact we were with the state Police Commissioner, Alhaji Adenrele Tasheed Shinaba and the state’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SAS) from 9pm till around 3.3am.
“On Wednesday morning, the guy sent an account number of an old generation bank to me and that I should pay before 9.30am because they have given an injection to my son that has made him weak. He said my son has fainted twice. I told him that I’m already inside the bank trying to pay the money,” he said.
Aminu, who is a Kano-based businessman, said when he wanted to pay the police who were with him in the bank asked him to wait for them to perfect their plans.
“You know they followed me to the bank with a court order so they said I should wait for them to make arrangement with bank officials. After several pressure, the policemen allowed me and we transferred N2m to the account given to me by the kidnappers,” he said.
He said the transfer was delayed due to unstable network in the bank and that as such the kidnappers didn’t get the money until 10.30am, an hour after the deadline given to him.
“After the money was transferred, I tried severally but the kidnappers’ line was not going. But by 12:30, he called me with another line and acknowledged that he has received alert. He demanded for the balance of N3m and I told him that I’m working on it in the bank. The kidnapper now told me that I should forgive him but I said I will after seeing my son. He then ended the call.
“About 30 minutes later he called me with another number, he now said I should go to Kurege near a block industry. That I should search inside an uncompleted building for my son. We went there but we couldn’t see him there, but around 5pm, policemen saw the lifeless body of my son in an uncompleted building somewhere else. They strangulated him and we saw signs of injuries on his two eyes,” he said.
He commended the state governor, Engineer Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the police and officials of the State Security Service (SSS) for their prompt response.
Also speaking, Rabi who attends the same school as the deceased said she saw the kidnapers when they came to the school.
“I saw him outside with a teenager wearing uniform of our school while I was upstairs in the class. Before I could come down, they were nowhere to be found, “Rabi said.
One of the Islamic school teachers told Sunday Trust that the deceased’s brilliance was extra-ordinary and prayed for the arrest of his killers.
“Aliyu was not only a brilliant pupil but was also calm and respectful. These traits endeared him to many. The boy was very popular in our area because of his calmness. I did not know his father until when he was kidnapped,” he said when our correspondents visited the school yesterday.
Spokesperson of Kano State police command, ASP Magaji Musa Majia, confirmed the case, saying they have swung into investigation.
Source: Sunday Trust
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