Malam Saidu from Faskari, Katsina State. was forced to remove the corrugated metal roofing of his house and sell it in order to pay ransom money to bandits for the freedom of his son who is being held in captivity.
According to Katsina Post, an online news medium, his adult children had earlier raised N50,000 but the bandits demanded additional N100,000 as ransom.
Malam Saidu had no other means or sources of raising the money. As a result, he resorted to removing the corrugated metal roofing of his own house in order to sell it to pay the ransom money.
