Three men have been arrested by operatives in Ogun State Police Command for planning to kidnap their former employer in Ijebu Ode area and demanding N5 million as payment to avoid the experience.
The suspects were Peter Nse, aged 24; Chuckwuma Nwobodo, 48; and Michael Umanah, 30.
The command’s spokesman, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, said that they were arrested after one Ifenuga Olayinka reported at Igbeba divisional headquarters that he received a message on his phone from someone who described himself as a ‘Killer Vagabond of Africa.’
The sender of the message directed Olayinka to pay N5 million into a bank account he sent to him or risk being kidnapped within the shortest possible time.
The PPRO said that based on the report, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Igbeba division, CSP Musiliu Doga, detailed his detectives to unravel those behind the message.
“The detectives embarked on technical and intelligence-based investigation which led them to Anambra State where two of the suspects, namely Peter Nse and Chuckwuma Nwobodo, were arrested.
“Their arrest led the detectives to Ago Iwoye where the third suspect, Michael Umanah, was apprehended.
“It was when they were brought before the complainant that he identified them as his former employees whom he laid off not quite long ago for a certain misconduct.
“On interrogation, they all confessed to the commission of the crime and claimed to have made the attempt just because they were not happy as the complainant terminated their appointment,” SP Oyeyemi stated.
He said that the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had directed that the suspects be transferred to the Anti- Kidnapping Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Departments for discreet investigation.
