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| The suspected kidnappers paraded today at Ikeja Police Command. |
The Lagos State Police Command today paraded
three suspected kidnappers who allegedly held captive a cousin of
business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote. The name of the victim was given as
Yahaya Aminu.
The three suspected
kidnappers paraded are: Pius Ubaka Livinus, 25, who allegedly kidnapped an
Indian national in 2010 and also kidnapped a Dangote worker in
February this year; Kenechukwu Onyema, 27, and Segun Ayebe, 32, who was
arrested while collecting $40,000 ransom at Ajah, Lagos.
The three suspects were arrested by men of the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, recently during a well coordinated search for
the gang members.
SARS sources told P.M.NEWS that the gallantry of one of their
men, Corporal Abdulrahaman Mohammed, led to the arrest of the suspects.
The corporal was said to have trailed Ubaka Livinus to a roof
top at Ajao Estate.
When SARS men arrested the suspects, a KIA Serato car was
recovered from them. Their captive was also released.
The suspects, during interrogation, allegedly confessed to SARS
men that they committed the crime.
In his confessional statement, Ubaka the son of a dismissed
Inspector of Police, Livinus Afone, who was said to have been serving in
Force Headquarters, Obalende, said his arrest was the second in recent times. He
stated that he participated in three of the gang’s operations.
He confessed that he had wanted to quit kidnapping in February
this year when his attempt to kidnap a staff of Dangote company was
foiled.
He added that he was nabbed when he attempted to collect a $32
million ransom from relatives of his victim.
Ubaka, who is from Abia State, southeast Nigeria, said he
went back into kidnapping because his share of $40,000 (N5.5 million) out
of $200,000 collected from an earlier operation was used to buy two plots of
land at Lekki Free Trade zone for N2.5 million and he was defrauded when
he attempted to obtain a visa to Portugal after he paid N850,000 to a
fraudster.
He said when he was arraigned before a Lagos magistrate’s court
for an earlier crime, he was admitted to bail in the sum of N100,000 with
two sureties each in like sum.
Ubaka added that his Infinity SUV was given out as collateral to
his counsel, Barrister Evans Duru who applied for his bail before the
court.
That was how he blew the $40,000 share he got from the first
operation in 2010.
In his confession, the second suspect, Segun Ayebe, from Delta
State, southsouth Nigeria, said he joined the gang during their third
kidnap operation because he had just returned from a heart surgery in India
and needed money.
SARS officials said the three suspects will soon be arraigned in
court at the completion of investigation.
Culled from PMNews
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