Briefing journalists about the crime while parading nine suspects and the rescued children before Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Paul Yakadi, said the suspects kidnapped five children in Makurdi, took them to Umuahia, the capital of Abia State, where they sold one of them for N700,000.
They were however traced with seven of the kidnappers arrested including the buyer of the child who paid N700,000 for one of the kidnapped boys.