Police arrest Plateau student for killing neighbor’s child after receiving ransom money

Elijah Anthony, a 17-year-old student in Plateau State, has been arrested by operatives of the State Police Command for allegedly killing his neighbor’s 5-year-old child after demanding N400,000 ransom from the victim’s parents.

Anthony, an SS 3 student of Manret High School in Jos South Local Government Area and Angle D Local Government Area of ​​the state, was paraded at the Jos Police Command on Thursday along with 39 other suspects of various crimes. Ta.

In an interview with Punch Metro, Anthony, who confessed to killing his neighbor’s five-year-old boy, identified as Dawom Pam, said, “They asked (the victim’s) brother to go buy something. But the boy was behind him.” So my friend and I carried the boy and hid him somewhere in an unfinished building.

“The boy’s parents then searched for him and I pretended to join them in the search for the missing child, but I did not take him to where he was hiding.

“He then asked for 5 million naira, but he managed to get 400,000 naira. But five days later, the boy was murdered. “If we let him go, I I killed him because I was afraid he would tell his parents that I kidnapped him.”

He said: They came and arrested me. That’s what drove me to kidnapping and killing. I was planning to write WASSCE this year, but I didn’t. please forgive me.

State Police Commissioner Okoro Julius Arawali, who paraded Anthony and 39 other suspects, said the child’s body was recovered from a wetland near an unfinished building where it had been discovered and dumped by the suspects. revealed. handed over to his parents for burial.