Husband and wife arrested for allegedly stealing neighbour’s 2-yr-old son

The Police Command in Nasarawa State has arrested a husband and his wife for allegedly stealing their neighbour’s two-year-old son.

DSP Ramhan Nansel, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, said this on Thursday in Lafia while briefing newsmen.

Nansel said 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 p.m., 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.

The spokesman said 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.

According to him, the prime suspect who is a neighbour to the victim’s father, upon interrogation, confessed to having conspired with the other suspects, all of Orange Market, to steal the child.

He added that the suspect also revealed to the detectives that he handed the child over to his wife, who took him to Katsina State.

Nansel said the police trailed the wife to Katsina state, arrested her and recovered the child, who was reunited with his parents.