A 23-year-old woman identified as Maryam Mohammed has been arrested and paraded by the police alongside other accomplices for kidnapping her boyfriend who refused to marry her after years of courtship.

The suspect was arrested by the Kano state police command at Jaba quarters, Ungogo local government area of Kano state while negotiating a ransom with the family of one of their captives last Tuesday, January 12.

Confessing to the crime, Maryam Mohammed said she was introduced into kidnapping by her uncle, one Hamza Dogo of Butsa village, Gusau local government of Zamfara state after she had parted ways with her ex-lover.

She said;

“I was introduced into kidnapping by my uncle called Hamza from Butsa village, Gusau local government of Zamfara state and the first person we kidnapped was my ex-boyfriend who refused to marry me despite my efforts to get him convinced during our years of courtship.

After he had dumped me, my uncle asked me to bring him so that we could hold him until he pays money before we could release him.

When we kidnapped him, his family paid N5m to secure his freedom and out of that amount I was given N800,000 with which I rented that house at Jaba quarters”

Parading the suspects before newsmen, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said Investigation conducted by the police revealed that Maryam’s former husband, one Sani Ismail, of Bidda LGA of Niger State, was a notorious Cattle Rustler who was killed in Butsa Village, Gusau LGA of Zamfara State while carting away rustled cows.