The police in Kano have confirmed the arrest of a 19-year-old secondary school leaver, Ibrahim Ahmad, over the abduction and drugging to death of a five-year-old primary school pupil, identified as Ahmad Ado, popularly known as Sayyid.
The commissioner of police in Kano, Alhaji Ahmed Ilyasu, confirmed this to newsmen shortly after the police operatives exhumed the corpse of the teenager from a shallow grave.
He said the suspect, alongside his accomplices, Abdulmajid Mohammed and Musa Sunusi, both 18-year-old, hurriedly buried the victim in an uncompleted building at Sheka area of the ancient city.
The police commissioner said the police received a report that one Ahmad Ado, five years old of Karkasara Quarters, Kano, had been kidnapped by unknown persons at Ma’ahat Nursery and Primary School, Karkasara, Kano.
He said the kidnappers subsequently contacted the family of their victim, demanding ransom of N50 million.
He said following a tip-off, a team of Operation Puff Adder detectives from Anti-Kidnapping Squad, promptly swung into action, using technical intelligence and arrested the principal suspects, one Ibrahim Ahmad, aged 19, of Darmanawa Quarters.
He said on interrogation, two of his accomplices, Abdulmajid Mohammed and Musa Sunusi, both 18-years-old of Sheka Quarters, Kunmbotso local government area of Kano state, were subsequently nabbed.
The commissioner said the suspects confessed that they over drugged the victim after kidnapping him, which subsequently led to his death at Sheka Sabuwa, Abuja Quarters, Kumbotso local government area.
He further said on completion of investigation, the suspects would be charged to court for prosecution.