A middle-aged man, Jibril Falalu has confessed to orchestrating his own mother’s kidnapping with the help of bandits in order to collect ransom.
The incident happened in Tsa/Magam community in the Kankia Local Government Area of Katsina State.
Falalu instructed the bandits to kidnap his mother, but fortunately, she was rescued just a day later.
A crisis and conflict journalist in the Northwest region, Bakatsine, on Friday, said Falalu was arrested on Thursday by officials of Katsina Community Watch (KCW).
Bakatsine posted a video of the confessional statement made by Falalu when he was being interrogated by KWC officials
“I arranged for the abduction of my mother. We worked on it together with one Nakande and one other; we were three all together,” Falalu said in the video.