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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.
according to Vanguard 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.
Rasheed.
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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