By Harris Emanuel
A 40 years old woman, Mrs. Joy Emmanuel Sunday, has confessed to the police, that her husband Starved her of sex and also refused to give money for the upkeep of the children for too long which explains why she planned and abducted him for ransom.
It was gathered that the kidnappers demanded N10million as ransom and later reduced it to N2m which was paid before they were apprehended by the police at the point of sharing the loot.
The suspect, who was among 29 others paraded, for various offences including kidnapping, robbery and child theft, by the State commissioner of police, Olatoye Durosinmi, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, said she has been subjected to doing all sorts of manual jobs to fend for herself and the children since her husband got married to another woman.
She narrated that when one of her child finished secondary education, there was no money to send him for further studies.
In her words, “I arranged for my husband’s kidnapping because for a long time, he had abandoned me with his children. Even when my father and mother-in-laws were alive he abandoned me.
“He never cared for his children. I engaged in manual labour such as weeding in people’s farm to feed his children and pay their school fees.
“One of the children finished from secondary school and I approached my husband to plan how to send the son to learn trade since the father refused to send him to university but my husband shunned me.
“The major reason i arranged for his kidnapping is that my husband refused to have sex with me and does not take care of me and the children”
Mrs. Sunday further noted that she never collected her share of the money before the arrest by the police
“The kidnapper that collected the ransom of N2million never gave my share and I didn’t even see the money. It was when the kidnappers were sharing the N2m that the police arrested them and they mentioned me. They never gave me any part of the ransom collected from my husband.
“The kidnap kingpin, (now at large) identified as Udo Moji, assured me that he would collect the money from my husband for me since my husband attacked me and poured away soup in the pot.
“So, I agreed with him and he kidnapped my husband. As I ran around to gather money to pay the kidnappers the main suspect, Udo Moji ran away. ” She confessed.
Narrating his ordeal, husband of the suspect Mr., Emmanuel Sampson Ebong , a native of Ntak Obio Akpa in Oruk Anam local government area, Akwa Ibom State, said: ” I was kidnapped on July 21, 2022 in my compound.
“I came back from treatment because I was weak. Around 8.30pm, I saw about six people in my compound. They struggled with me and released two gun shots into the air, and I struggled with them before they took me out of my compound in a mini bus and drove away.
“They kept me from that Thursday till Sunday and demanded N10million from me and later reduced it to N2m before the police came that day, If not God, they would have killed me.
“They took me to Etinan where they caged me. I thank the Nigeria Police for the rescue operation. I also thank my Village Head. I don’t know the reason they kidnapped me, they collected N2m from me but the police later recovered around N500, 000 from them.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of police, Olatoye Durosinmi, while parading the suspects vowed that his command would not leave any stone unturned to ensure that residents of the State sleep with their eyes closed.
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