Man confesses to hiring kidnappers to abduct and kill farmer for ransom in Niger State

Criminal offense

By Linda Ikeji
11 October 2026, 4:22 pm
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The Niger State Police Command has actually apprehended a 29-year-old male, Godwin Yahaya, for criminal conspiracy, culpable murder and kidnapping.

The representative for the command, SP Wasiu Abiodun, who revealed this in a declaration on 10th October, 2026 stated the suspect supposedly contracted a guy determined as Bashiru, to kidnap a massive farmer, Jonah Isah, for ransom in Zawudna town, Munya Local Government Area of the state.

According to the PPRO, on June 26, 2026, Bashiru and members of his gang got into the victim’s home at about midnight.

The gang k!lled Isah and abducted members of his household along with 3 other individuals.

The kidnappers required N2.1 million as ransom before launching the victims.

Abiodun revealed that the victims, who were just recently saved and launched, linked Yahaya, declaring that the abductors determined him as the individual who contracted them to perform the operation.

The operatives of the Department of State Services connected to the Kuchi location apprehended Yahaya on September 27, 2026, before moving him to the Sarkin-Pawa Police Division for examination.

Throughout interrogation, the suspect presumably admitted to contracting Bashiru to kidnap the farmer so that they might share the ransom earnings.

The PPRO even more declared that examinations exposed that Yahaya took control of the deceased’s farmland for his individual usage after the farmer’s d3ath.

“On 27/9/2026 at about 1:40p.m, DSS operatives attached to Kuchi area arrested and transferred one Godwin Yahaya, 29yrs of Zawudna Village, Munya LGA to Sarkin-Pawa Police Div following a complaint by some kidnapped victims in the community who were recently released and rescued, that the suspect conspired with some suspected kidnappers to abduct one Jonah Isah, now deceased and others to obtain ransom.

“Authorities operatives connected to the Div instantly began examination and throughout interrogation, the suspect admitted to the criminal offense mentioning that at some point in the year 2024, he contracted one Bashiru, now at big to snatch Jonah in order to get ransom which they would share among themselves, as the victim was a big scale farmer, however they did not commit the act till after 2 years and on the 26/6/2026 at about 12am, the stated Bashiru and his gang members got into Zawudna town, trespassed into the home of the victim, k!lled him and abducted his household in addition to 3 other individuals.

“The abductors demanded a ransom of two million, one hundred thousand naira before releasing the victims. They also revealed to the victims that it was Godwin who contracted them to perpetrate the act.

“Additional examination likewise exposed that following the d3ath of the departed, the suspect transformed the deceased’s farmland for his individual usage before his arrest and throughout interrogation, the suspect admitted to the act.

“He is currently under more examination in SCID Minna, and effort to apprehend his accomplices remains in development.”