Combat ready policemen have successfully arrested two deadly kidnappers with the sum of N3million they collected as ransom.
The two suspects displaying the ransom money given to them
Two suspects, including a 20-year-old nurse, Felicia Weinoh, who
specialized in treating victims and members of the kidnap gang who
abducted eight schoolgirls and staff at the Nigeria Turkish
International College, NTIC in Isheri North Area of Ogun State have been
arrested by the police.
Godspower Olobele, who is said to be the gang’s informant stationed
at Majidun area of Ikorodu, Lagos was arrested during the weekend with
the sum of N200,000, said to be his share of the ransom collected for
the release of the NTIC schoolgirls and staff.
The suspects were arrested few days after an undisclosed amount was
paid as ransom for the schoolgirls and staff to the gang of kidnappers
who stormed the school and abducted the victims at night.
A ransom of N1.2 billion was initially demanded by the kidnappers,
also known to have been terrorizing Lagos and Ogun states. They have
been mentioned in several high-profile bank robberies and kidnappings
within these states in recent times.
Felicia Weinoh, disclosed that her boy friend, who she identified
as Iyenaboh Bandon, a.k.a. American, lured her into the gang. She
explained that she wasn’t being paid because her boyfriend was always
giving her money.
“American is my boy friend and we have been dating for a long
time and he knows that I am a nurse and I am still undergoing training. I
used to go into the creeks to treat him and his friends whenever they
were sick and last week they called and told me that a woman in their
custody was sick and I told them that I was busy but when I went the
police arrested me at Majidun waterside,” she revealed.
According to Vanguard, the other suspect, Olobele, disclosed that
he was given the sum of N200,000 as his own share after the NTIC
kidnapping, adding that he also got N100,000 when three schoolgirls
were abducted at Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary in Ikorodu, Lagos,
in March 2016.
“It was American who introduced me to the gang. He met me at
Majidun where I used to sell firewood and local gin close to the
waterside when he came to drink and when he knew I am an Ijaw man, he
asked of my sales and I told him I make about N2,000 daily and he told
me that it was small.
‘’He then asked me to join him in his business and my job will
be simple and easy. Whenever they have victims in their camp I normally
supply the food and whenever they want people to enter into their camp
they will pass instructions to me. After every business I used to get
between N100,000 and N200, 000.
‘’I was given N200,000 after the last job but the police found
another N100,000 on me which he gave me for the police towards his
wife’s bail.“
Earlier, four suspects, including a militant leader, Philip Joel,
also known as General Kakadu, were arrested by operatives of the
Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT led
by Assistant Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, while a ransom of N1.2
million was recovered from one of them.
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