A
36-year old woman, Ngozi Onuonwu who was arrested in Lagos for her
alleged involvement in kidnapping has opened up and said that
frustration led her into it because marriage was not forth coming. The remorseful Ngozi said if she had married when her mates got married,she would not have lived with her younger brother who got her into the business.She narrated how the youths in her
community at Umuleri in Anambra State engaged in a communal war with
their neighboring community, Aguleri which lasted for several years. She
said many youths died and this affected many girls including her as
they could not get married. She said her fiancée died in the war and she
did not get another man and so she had to move to Lagos and started
living with Chibuzor her brother.
The police in Lagos on Tuesday paraded Ngozi along with six other suspected
members of her gang for allegedly kidnapping people in Lagos State.The leader of the kidnapping gang operating in
Festac, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, Henry Emenike, 30, confessed that his
gang made more than N20 million since they started kidnapping people in
Lagos two months ago. Abia State-born Emenike made the revelation when
he was paraded at the Police Headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos, Tuesday along
with seven suspected members of his gang, including Ngozi.
The
other members paraded with Emenike are Uche Ogbansi, 30, from Abia
State, popularly known as Rasta; Emeka Obasi , 33, from Ebonyi State;
Oliver Nwabueze, 30, from Imo State; a commercial motor cycle rider who
allegedly provided his bike for their movement, Chibuzor Osuagwu, 29,
also from Imo State and Ngozi. Emenike told his interrogators that they
successfully carried out more than four operations in Lagos where the
victims’ families were made to pay various amount of money as ransom.
He said the last operation his gang carried out in Festac was foiled by
the police and in the process the victim died.
He said he was
in palm oil business in Abia state before he went into kidnapping.
Emenike said whenever they abducted a victim, they usually kept the
victim in the care of Uche Ogbansi, popularly known as Rasta at Ago
Palace Way, Okota, Lagos. The suspects were arrested by the police at
Festac and were brought to the command headquarters. The Area commander in charge of Festac, Mr. Dan Okoro, explained that the police trailed
members of the gang before some of them were arrested while others are
still at large. He said that the gang was behind kidnapping incidents in
Lagos, especially in Festac axis. Okoro said the recent kidnapping that
resulted in the killing of the victim, Odi Nwaeze, was carried out by
the gang.
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