A five-year-old boy killed after a ransom paid

A 17-year-old student has been arrested for killing his neighbour’s five-year-old child after collecting N400,000 in ransom from the victim’s parents in Plateau State,Nigeria.

“They sent the victim’s elder brother to buy something and the little boy was behind him. So, I and my friend carried the boy and hid him somewhere in an uncompleted building,” the suspect confessed.

“We were able to get N400,000 from the ransom demanded but later killed the boy with fear he might tell his parents that I was the one that kidnapped him if we had released him,” he added.

“The suspect expressed regrets over the incident, blamed his action on the hardship going on in the country,” reports said.

The corpse of the five-year-old child had been recovered from a swampy place near the uncompleted building where he was dumped by the suspects and handed over to his parents for burial.

The 17-year-old boy and 39 other suspects were paraded according to the State Commissioner of Police, Okoro Julius Alawari.