A husband and his wife who were engaged in kidnapping have been arrested.
A husband and his wife who made kidnapping their family business and made huge sums of money from it have been nabbed. The culprits, Douglas Nweke and his wife, Ezinne, who are currently nursing a 9-month-old baby, were arrested by the Rivers State Police Command, after their last attempt at kidnapping failed.
According to the police, their first attempt yielded N2 million and the urge to make more money prompted them to continue.
They had succeeded in the kidnap business until November 5, 2014, when luck ran out on them.
They were arrested alongside three others in connection with the abduction of one Mr. Daniel Opiyo, who was kidnapped in October this year, after being lured through Facebook by a friend, who is a student of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt.
Narrating her involvement in the deal, Ezenne said:
It was my husband that started it. At the beginning, I warned him that I did not like that business. So after everything, they shared the first N2 million they made.
In another one, the girl that connected us to the kidnapped boy started complaining that they short-changed her; she said they were supposed to give her N250,000 or N300,000 but they gave her N200,000.
So, she threatened that if they did not give her the balance, she would report us and that she was ready to die because of that.
I asked her to be patient that everything would be sorted out. I promised to talk to my husband to give her the balance and while we were executing that, the police came to my house and arrested me.
The husband, Douglas, also sang to the police, saying it was hardship that lured him into the business of kidnapping:
We are five in the business. The first business we did gave us N2 million. I am the one that brought the business. After that, we shared the money and mine was N300,000.
The first person we kidnapped was my co-worker in my former office.
The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ahmed Mohamed, revealed that the police on receiving the information about their latest kidnap, mobilised and traced the couple to their apartment where N200,000, being part of their own share of N300,000 ransom collected from their victim, was discovered.
The police spokesman added that locally-made pistols were also recovered from them.
The PPRO said:
These couple kidnapped one Opiyo and demanded N2 million as ransom but luck ran out on them. We got them and we recovered N200,000 being part of their share of N300,000. This money was part of the money they collected as ransom.
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