Narrating the incident to journalists, the father of the deceased, Alh. Shehu Abubakar of Hayin Gada, Zabi, said, on 20 September, 2018, he sent Mohammed Bello to go and take his goats around as usual when he returned from school.
He explained that on that day, he was going to Maraba Gwanda, he saw the goats without seeing Mohammed Bello around. He searched for him alongside his family members, but to no avail.
Alh. Shehu Abubakar said that after 18 days of the missing of Mohammed Bello, he received a phone call that his son was with them and that he (Alhaji Shehu Abubakar) has to pay five million Naira (N5,000,000.00) for his son’s release.
He said, “We continue bargaining until we arrived at Sixty Thousand Naira (N60,000.00), they said I should take the money to Zabi.
“I told them my younger brother will take the money to them, he went, they began to twist him up and down telling him they are looking at him and finally they asked him to keep the money and go. When he dropped the money, he left but they didn’t release my son.
“We reported the matter to our Village Head and we also reported to the Police. We gave them the number that we negotiated with the kidnappers and very quickly they tracked him via a text message he sent to someone at Zabi, and he was arrested.
“He led them to Hayin Gada, Zabi and called Ahmed Abdullahi that he should come out that they have some Sheikh-visitors from their school, that is how he was arrested.
“He confessed that he was the one that kidnapped Mohammed Bello since that day, he was asked of the whereabouts of the boy, he led them to Likoro Area where he showed them the dead body of the boy that has already started decomposing. They used sack to convey the corpse to the Police Station for investigation.”
When asked of how he killed the boy, he said, he called him and took him away on arrival to the scene, he bounded his hands at the back and held his neck until he finally died and he left him there.
The father called on the authority to do justice over the killing of his innocent son after collecting the money demanded from him.
Also in his comment, the father of Ahmed Abdullahi, the killer, Malam Abdullahi Yahaya Ahmed, lamented and described the situation as unfortunate.
The remains of late Mohammed Bello was buried on Friday at about 8.00 am after the released of the copes from the Hospital.
Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer Kaduna state Command, DSP Yakubu A Sabo said the suspects, Ahmed Abdullahi and one Malam were under investigation at the state headquarters.
