A team of
operatives from the Special Investigation Bureau,SIB and the Special Anti
Robbery Squad, SARS, have arrested six suspected members of a kidnap
syndicate, over the abduction and subsequent release of a woman, last
November, after payment of 70,000 US Dollars.
Surprisingly, one of the suspects identified as Nonso Ejike, a
34-year-old trader, was discovered to be a former apprentice of the
victim’s brother.
To the surprise of all , Nonso, admitted to have masterminded the
kidnap but said it was not purposely to make money but to have his pound
of flesh on his former boss.
The arrest according to Police sources, was made after the
ransom was paid and the victim released. It was gathered that while the victim
was still in the kidnapers den, one of her abductors used her
phone to make a call.
“We took the
number, ran a track on them and in the process, one of those numbers happened
to be the mobile number of Nnoso Ejike, who was an ex staffer of the victim’s
brother. We tracked and apprehended him. He confessed and provided us
with all information we used to arrest five other members of the gang,”
sources stated.
I did it on revenge When approached, Ejike said:“ I want to
make it clear to the world that I didn’t stage my boss sister’s kidnap because
of money. I did it on revenge because my boss and her sister offended me. The
woman is a very a wicked woman and I thought the only way I could pay
back, was to kidnap her.
My problem with them started when they wanted to settle me,after
serving them for over three years.My boss has a pharmaceutical store and
another big firm in Lagos Island. But he settled me
with only N250,000 when I was leaving, an amount that was too small
for me to start any meaningful business.
In any case, I decided to travel to China to do some menial
jobs. That was in 2007, where I spent four years before I was
deported.Before leaving the shores of Nigeria, I had a girlfriend who also
worked for my former boss. After I was deported, we decided to get married.
That was in 2011.
But my boss was never happy with the union and he did not hide it.
He would taunt my wife for accepting to marry a nobody like me. On two
occasions, she lost her pregnancy due to hard work in the office.
As if that was not enough, my ex boss threw her out when she was
nine months pregnant without paying her a dime”
Nonso hinted that when he went to ask his former boss
why his wife was laid off without payment,he was
informed that she was indebted to the company to the tune of N3 Million,
a claim his wife attributed to failure on the part of some
customers to pay for goods purchased.
“I became angry and decided to kidnap his sister because she was
the one instigating my ex-boss against us. Then, I contacted
three of my friends; Nwabueze, Nwankwo and Ifeanyi, who are also traders
at Lagos Island and informed them of my plan. Nwabueze thereafter,
introduced me to some boys at Mile 2 area, whom he felt could do
the job.
I met the boys, took them to the woman’s house and the next
thing they did was to kidnap her . They took her to a hotel in Ikorodu
where she was kept for some days,with $300,000 demanded
as ransom.But at the end, $70,000 was paid and she
was released . I got N2million as my share from the ransom
and deposited it in the bank. My intention was not to make
money out of it but to address injustice.” Ejike insisted
Source: Vanguard
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