How kidnappers forced heavily pregnant woman to travel 334 kilometers to deliver ransom
Detectives in Lagos have continued to unleash terror on kidnappers and have carried out several onslaughts against their deadly activities by making several arrests.
Notably, a major victory was recorded in Ajah, a suburb of Lagos, the sequel to the recent killing of nine notorious billionaire kidnappers in the city.
The victory took place after a gang of kidnappers abducted an oil magnet at Ado Road in Ajah, a few months back, and escaped through the waterways to the creeks in far-away Ondo State.
The oil magnet was In his dredging site when a six-man armed gang came to kidnap him into a flying boat and took him to an unknown destination through the waterway.
The heavily armed kidnappers shot sporadically into the air to scare everyone who might approach them.
Attempted escape
While in motion, the hostage managed to jump from the flying boat into the river in a desperate bid to escape but they also plunged into the river and went after him.
After catching him, they whisked him away to their stronghold in the creek at Ikorodu area of Lagos. The kidnappers, who transferred him from the flying boat into a wooden canoe to access the creek, only allowed him to make contact with his family on the third day when they demanded a ransom of N200 million.
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N42m Ransom
The family was able to raise N42 million which they converted to dollars as demanded by the kidnappers and it gave them 30, 000 U.S dollars and an additional cash of N100, 000 which they packaged and got ready for the trip to an unknown direction.
When the elder brother of the victim volunteered to deliver the ransom, they rather insisted that they must speak with the wife of their victim.
Shockingly, when the victim’s wife spoke with them, they insisted she must personally deliver the ransom to them.
Passionate pleas by the distraught lady that she was almost on the verge of delivering a new baby failed as they shouted back, asserting that if she failed to deliver the ransom, they would kill her husband.
“I don’t know. Maybe, it was juju Adelaja (his colleague) used in talking me into it, I don’t know, only God understands because it is not like I didn’t have money to feed or for other things before I followed them to do this.
“I just don’t understand how the situation happened.
I don’t understand.” On his part, Adelaja said: “After he (the third suspect) met me and Old Soldier, Old Soldier collected the hand chain we collected from the victim and sold it.
“After selling it, he sent N150,000 and later, N250,000 to me. A total of N400,000 was what he sent to me. It was Old Soldier who gave me money, he was the one who changed it. He transferred from POS. “In all, I got N2.3 million from the operation”.
Proceeds of loot
The second suspect, Adelaja, also said that he used his share of the ransom to buy a new boat. The suspects said they were married. While Old Soldier said he has nine children from different women but is now married to only one, Adelaja said he has just one wife and a daughter.
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