Four suspects who connived with Edward Okache, a 23-year-old man, in Ogun State to fake his kidnap have revealed that the victim contracted them to kidnap him and demand ransom from his parents.
According to the suspects, who are currently cooling off in one of the cells of the Ogun State Police Command, “it was Edward Okache who conspired with us to kidnap him for him to extort money from his parents to invest in an online business.”
Two of the suspects Asamoah Ernest and Isiah Uti explained that it was Ephraim Anyijor and Charity Lukpata who are from the same Yala local government area of Crossriver that introduced the Edward Okache to us and we all planned his kidnap.
NigeriaCrime.com gathered that the suspects were arrested following, a report lodged at Mowe Divisional Headquarters by Comfort Okache who reported via phone call that his younger brother who travelled from Calabar to Lagos was kidnapped around Mowe area of Ogun state and that the kidnappers were demanding for ten million naira if the relations want to see the boy alive.
Sequel to the report, the DPO Mowe Division, SP Folake Afeniforo mobilised the division’s tactical teams and moved to the area.
Upon painstaking and enduring combing of the surrounding bush in Orimerunmu area, the victim was sighted in an uncompleted building with the duo of Asamoah Ernest a Ghanaian and Isiah Uti, where he was tied in both hands and legs. The two suspects found with him were promptly arrested, while the victim was rescued.
Confirming, their arrest, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Police Command said the case took a different turn when they got to the station, the two arrested suspects Asamoah Ernest and Isiah Uti, made a shocking revelation that it was the so-called victim that planned with them to kidnap him for him to extort money from his parents to invest on an online business.
“Their confession led to the arrest of Ephraim Anyijor and charity Lukpata. They have all confessed to the commission of the crime.”
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the suspects be transferred to the Anti-Kidnapping Unit Of The State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and possible prosecution.