Elijah Anthony, a 17-year-old student in Plateau State, has been detained by men of the State Police Command for reportedly murdering his neighbor’s five-year-old kid after receiving N400,000 in ransom from the victim’s parents.
Anthony, a Senior Secondary student at Manret High School in the Angul D village of Plateau State‘s Jos South Local Government Area, was among 39 other suspects paraded before the police command’s headquarters in Jos on Thursday.
While responnding to questions from journalists, Anthony, who confessed to killing the five-year-old neighbour identified as Dawom Pam, said, “They sent his (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.
“Later, the parents of the boy came looking for him and I also pretended and joined them in the search for their missing child but I did not take them to where the boy was hidden.
“Later we demanded N5 million, but we were able to get N400,000. But five days later, the boy was killed. I was the one that killed him because I fear he might tell his parents that I was the one that kidnapped him if we had released him”.
