A 27-year-old suspected kidnapper, Rasheed Adetunji, who was
paraded alongside other suspects, has confessed that his two wives knew he was
a criminal and not a kidnapper.
He also revealed that he used part of the ransom money
collected from victims to get married to them.
According to the Osun State-born Adetunji, his love for
women is responsible for his having two wives at his age and had hoped to marry
more before he was arrested.
One of his wives had a premonition of
his current travails and warned him to stay away from members of his gang.
He regretted that he would miss his wives and family who, he
claimed, he was trying to make happy.
On how he joined the kidnapping gang, he said it was Niyi
Omosola that introduced and placed him and other members of the gang on an oath
administered by a native doctor, known as Baba.
The other suspects are Ifeanyi Chukwuleta, 25, from Oguta in
Imo State, and Kolawale Alani, 26, from Ekiti State.
The suspects were arrested after the kidnap of a 62-year-old
woman, Kudirat Adeboye, along Eleko-Epe Expressway by six armed men.
It was gathered that the gang contacted the victim’s family
and demanded N50 million but eventually accepted N3 million after six days of
keeping the victim.
The kidnappers directed the victim’s son to drop the money
at a spot on Ijebu-Ode Road, where one of the kidnappers came out from the bush
to collect the ransom.
Operatives of Special Anti-robbery Squad, SARS, who were
deployed to the area pursued the kidnappers and one of them, Niyi Omosola, was
caught.
He said it was Omosola that took operatives to a forest
along Epe Road where the victim was rescued. Omosola later died from the
gunshot injuries he sustained.
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