Police arrest four over N30m kidnap threat in Kebbi

By Haruna Aliyu

BIRNIN KEBBI — The Kebbi State Police Command has arrested four suspects for allegedly threatening to kidnap a resident of Jega town unless he paid a N30 million ransom.

The Command’s spokesman, SP Bashir Usman, disclosed this in a statement on Monday.

According to him, the suspects allegedly targeted Aminu Garba after obtaining his phone number through one of his relatives.

Usman said the suspects used a newly acquired telephone line and allegedly disguised their voices to sound like Fulani kidnappers while repeatedly calling the victim to demand N30 million or face abduction.