One of the uncles of the deceased victim of the kidnapping in Abuja last week, Sherifdeen Al-Kadriyar, has described how the family was notified of Nabeeha’s passing.
The Nation had previously reported that one of the abducted individuals, Nabeeha, had been killed by bandits who had abducted Alhaji Mansoor Al-Kadriyar and his six children.
Speaking with Daily Trust, Al-Kadriyar described how the criminals were enraged upon learning that they had collected half of the N60 million ransom.
He said:
“On Friday which was the day the deadline they gave us lapsed, they called and we tried to plead and negotiate with them that we were only able to raise close to N30 million.
“After back and forth, they instructed us to come and receive a ‘message’ at a location in the night.
“But when we got there around past 10 pm, what we saw was shocking.
“Nabeeha and three other victims were brutally murdered and we have to go with our corpse and leave the other three bodies there who might also be victims of failed negotiation because we believe their people are also coming for them. It was a heatless scenario.
“They later called and warned that they would be killing the rest siblings if the ransom which they have increased to N100m, N20m each for the five of them remaining is not met on the next deadline on Wednesday.
“They rejected the close to N30m that we took to them. They were furious and resulted in further insults and threats that we were even pleading with them for N65m or N70m which we don’t even have.”