The Kebbi State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old woman, Maryam Muhammad, for kidnapping her friend’s four-year-old son, Abdulmumini Surajo, and demanding a N5m ransom from his family.
A security analyst, Zagazola Makama, in a statement on X on Monday, disclosed that the boy was declared missing on November 26, 2025.
He mentioned that shortly after the child disappeared, his father received a call from an unknown female voice insisting on a N5m payment for his release.
According to him, police operatives, who launched a manhunt, traced the number to Muhammad.
He wrote, “The victim, Abdulmumini Surajo, went missing on November 26, 2025. Later that day, the father received a call from an unknown female voice demanding a ransom of five million naira (N5,000,000). Police detectives traced the call and identified the caller as Maryam Muhammad, 25, a married woman from the same area.”
She was reportedly arrested and also said to have confessed to the abduction.
Makama also disclosed that the child was rescued unharmed on November 29 at about 6:08 p.m. in Mahuta, Fakai Local Government Area of the state, where the suspect allegedly kept him.
When contacted on Monday, the Kebbi State Police Public Relations Officer, Nafiu Abubakar, confirmed the abduction.
He said, “The suspect had a misunderstanding with the mother of the boy and decided to retaliate by kidnapping him. She is currently in our custody, and an investigation is ongoing.”
