The remains of 39-year-old businessman, Yahaya Hassan Musa, has been found in a forest hours after his abductors received a N6million ransom.
The incident started on Thursday when the victim, who is married and has two kids, was returning from a business trio to Cotonou, Benin Republic, when he was kidnapped on Thursday in a forest around Mopa area of Kogi State.
The kidnappers first demanded N10m and later slashed it to N6m.
The late business man’s brother, Abubakar Hassan Musa, who took the N6million to the kidnappers, said Musa normally travel by air, but fate had it that this particular trip would be by road transportation.
He said “the kidnappers requested that I should take the money to a forest in Kabba. I went and delivered the money in cash. They then directed me to a place where I would meet him, but I did not meet him. I slept in the forest alone.
“The following day I continued searching until a woman who was kidnapped alongside my brother called me and said they killed him before even collecting the ransom, but that she didn’t know where they dumped his body.
“I went back to the nearby town and hired hunters to get back into the forest and search for the corpse. After treking many kilometers, we found his decomposing corpse.”
He said because they couldn’t find a bus to carry the corpse because of its decaying condition, they buried him in the bush according to Islamic rites after consulting the family in Kano.