° Police warn Schools to tighten up security
A 24-year- old suspect, Kamaldeen who abducted a Nine-year-old pupil in a School in the New Nyanya area of Nasarawa State has warned that Schools are too porus for criminals to operate.
The phone technician said that school management is careless and that they always leave rooms for kidnappers to abduct children.
The Ogbomosho-born suspect, who was arrested by the operatives of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team( IRT ), led by DCP Olatunji Disu, had collected N1.5 million from the parents of the abducted student before he was arrested.
Following his revelation, the Police High Command has advised School management to tighten up security in their premises.
The police not only succeeded in reuniting the pupil with his parents but also recovered the ransom from the suspect, who was smoked out of his hideout in the same New Nyanya in Nasarawa State
In his confessional statement, the suspect said:” My name is Teleheem Kamaldeen. I am 24. I am from Ogbomosho in Oyo State. I was arrested because I kidnapped a 9- year- old boy in New Nyanya. I went to his school to pick him .”
” I have been monitoring him for many months and I have been looking for the opportunity to abduct him. His parents stay in my area in the same New Nyanya. I always saw when he was being driven to and from school. I have been monitoring him .”
” On the day of their vacation, I went to their school and I saw that there was free entry into the gate unlike in the past. People were moving freely into and out of the school. The students were all playing around.”
” I walked into the school and looked for him. I told him that his mother had paid me to teach him computer operations. He was very happy. He instantly agreed to follow me. I told them in the school that I am his computer instructor and that I wanted to go and teach him .”
I took him away and lodged him in a hotel. I went with my laptop and I taught him how to operate a computer. We were enjoying with the computer till late in the night when the battery went off and I told him that we would continue the following morning .”
” While we were doing the computer work, I called his parents and told them I had abducted their son and that they should pay me #4000000( four million naira) but they negotiated it to#1500000(one million five hundred thousand naira.
” While we were in the hotel, I lied to the boy that his parents were aware that he was with me but in actual truth, I was speaking and negotiating a ransom with the parents.
” I am a phone repairer. At times people would bring phones to me for repair . When I finish repairing them, some would tell me to swap them with new ones for them to add more money .”
” I do t have money to buy enough phones to be selling and to swap with this set of people. I hope to use the ransom to buy new phones that I can be selling and swap with my customers.”
The Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba, confirmed the arrest, describing it as a “nonviolent but criminal offence ”
He warned school owners to put a measure in place to protect the process of bringing in and picking students from their schools.
He also threatened that the police would no longer only go after the suspects in case of such occurrence in the future but also arrest and prosecute school owners, where such happened.
