How Bandits Abducted Ibrahim From Soybeans Farm, Collected N56m And Returned Him Dead

He didn’t go to Kaduna to combat. He didn’t go to chase wealth. Ibrahim Kadafa, fondly known as Ibro, solely went house to oversee the harvest on his farm.

It was October 28, 2026. A day that ought to have ended with luggage of soybeans and smiles. Instead, it ended with gunshots and dying.

Sources mentioned Ibro, who labored in Abuja, had travelled to Alheri Camp, Kilometre 30, alongside the Kaduna-Abuja highway, to reap soybeans on his farm. He went along with his pal, Mustapha Shelpidi. They have been on the farm, doing trustworthy work, when armed males emerged from the bush and whisked each males away.

That was the final time his household noticed him alive.

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For two weeks, the household lived between hope and horror. The telephone calls got here. First, the abductors demanded N100 million. A determine far past what a farming household might dream of. After determined pleading and painful negotiations, it was lowered to N80 million.

Still, it was an excessive amount of. But love doesn’t calculate. The household offered property, borrowed, begged and gathered. In the top, they paid N56 million. They added three brand-new Samsung telephones and a recharge card value N20,000, simply as demanded by the scoundrels, believing that each kobo would purchase again Ibro’s life.

They waited for the reunion. They ready for his return. They additionally prayed.

On Wednesday, November 11, the agreed date, they went to obtain him.

Family members horrified. What they acquired was his corpse.

No embrace. No “thank God you are back.” Just a dull physique handed over to them like a parcel.

Family sources say Ibro had sustained a gunshot damage to his leg whereas making an attempt to flee throughout the abduction. For two weeks in captivity, he had no physician, no medication, no bandage. Just ache, starvation, and concern within the bush. They suspect problems from the untreated wound could have killed him earlier than the ransom was even paid.

He paid along with his life, and his household nonetheless paid with every thing they’d.

Today, the farm he went to reap stands silent. The soybeans he laboured for stay. But Ibro won’t ever return to collect them.

A grieving supply lamented that Ibro left Abuja as a employee, a pal, a son, a brother, however returned to his household as a reminiscence.

The supply expressed the concern that someplace alongside that Kaduna-Abuja freeway, one other household remains to be counting the price of going to their very own farm.