This Young man Planned His Father's Abduction And Collected N1m Ransom

A young man of about 20,  Ibrahim Aliyu Babatunde, who connived with some other kidnappers to abduct his father has been arrested and paraded alongside
his gang by the Oyo State police office.

Aliyu and three others were paraded by police at the command headquarters in Eleyeile, Ibadan. Other members of the kidnap gang were – Babuga Salihu (20), Aura Sands (20), and Amuda Yusufu (19). 

The victim, Alhaji Aliyu Babatunde, was abducted at his Igboora home town and had to spend three days in the kidnappers’den  and was set free after a ransom of N1million was paid by his family.

The victim’s son, who was leader of the gang, told journalists that he was lured into the criminal act because of his father’s insensitive attitude to welfare of his children.

“We are many. My father married many wives and he doesn’t care for us. We are left by my father to fend for ourselves. So, I think the only way to get money out of him is to organise for his abduction and force him to part with the money,” he said.

Babatunde added that he asked his three friends to abduct his father for the purpose of getting money from him.