A
man who got distressed with his Boss after the man refused to keep to
his end of their bargain, has done a cruel thing to the man's son.
File photo used only for illustrative purpose
A 20-year-old suspect, Emmanuel Blessing, has revealed he kidnapped
his boss' son the man refused to settle him, the News Agency of
Nigeria, NAN.
The suspect made the confession, Monday, on the sidelines of a
briefing by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Fatai Owoseni, on
criminal activities in the state.
The suspect admitted being the mastermind of the abduction of his boss’s son.
Emmanuel, who claimed to be a trader at the Mandilas market, Lagos
Island, was arrested along with one other, while on their way to collect
a N5 million ransom demanded for the release of their victim.
The suspect claimed that he singlehandedly abducted the 10-year-old
boy at Alafia area of Orile-Iganmu, on his way to school, as a way of
paying his master back for refusing to settle him, after working for him
for four years.
“I started staying with my Oga since 2013. He took me from my
parents to stay with him so that I can learn how to sell clothes. In the
agreement he had with my parents before he took me, he promised to
settle me after four years.
“He started to count my apprenticeship from 2014. In 2016, when
he was supposed to settle me, instead he opened another shop and asked
me to be paying him N20, 000 monthly.
“I could not cope because of the recession in the country, so I
asked him to settle me as agreed but he refused. Rather, he sent me
back to the village.
“I came back early January and I stayed in a hotel. It was then
that the idea of how to kidnap his son came to me. Last week Monday,
around 7.30 a.m., I stayed along the route where his son normally passed
to school at the Alafia area of orile.
“The boy emerged around 7.45 a.m. He came to me when I called him and I took him away,” the suspect confessed.
The suspect further explained that he kept the young boy in his
hotel room for four days, until he was arrested around Apapa Road.
“Throughout the four days, the boy stayed with me in my hotel
room at Oyingbo. I called my Oga on phone the next day to pay N5 million
into my account, if he hoped to see his son again. I sent him my
account number.
“I was on my way to collect my ATM card from the bank along
Apapa Road when I was arrested. I never knew that the police was on my
trail,” he added.
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, while briefing journalists
on the arrest, said that the suspect, along with one other, kidnapped
the 10-year old boy.
He said after kidnapping their victim, the suspects demanded for N5 million as ransom for the release of the boy.
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