Nigeria, Nov. 13 -- A desperate family's 56 million ransom payment, three brand-new Samsung phones and a 20,000 recharge card could not save a kidnapped farmer from his abductors, as bandits operating along the Kaduna-Abuja highway allegedly killed him after two weeks in captivity.

The victim, identified as Ibrahim Kadafa, popularly known as Ibro, was abducted alongside his friend, Mustapha Shelpidi, on October 28, 2026, while harvesting soybeans on his farm around Alheri Camp, Kilometer 30, along the Kaduna-Abuja highway.

According to a report by Silverbird TV, Ibrahim, who worked in Abuja, had travelled to supervise his farm when armed men stormed the area and whisked both men away.

Family sources disclosed that the kidnappers initia...