A 27-year-old suspected kidnapper, Rasheed Adetunji has confessed that his two wives are aware that he is a kidnapper. He made the confession while being paraded with other suspects by the Lagos State Police Command over the kidnapping of a 62-year-old woman, Kudirat Adebayo.
Adetunji further disclosed that he used part of the ransom realized from his victims to marry them.
The suspect, who hails from Osun State, revealed that his obsession for women made him to have two wives despite his age adding that he intended to marry more before he was apprehended by the police.
He however stressed that one of his wives foresaw his arrest and warned him to stay away from crime.
He regretted that he would miss his wives and family whom, he claimed, he wanted to satisfy.
Adetunji while recounting how he became a part of the kidnapping syndicate said he was introduced into the act by one Niyi Omosola, who upon introduction into the gang compelled him and others to swear an oath that was administered by a native doctor, known as Baba.
The other members of the gang arrested include, Ifeanyi Chukwuleta, 25, from Oguta in Imo State, and 26-year-old Kolawale Alani, 26.
The gang were nabbed along Eleko-Eke expressway after they kidnapped a 62-year-old woman, Kudirat Adeboye.
It will be recalled that the gang kidnapped the 62-year-old at Ajah market where she had gone to buy some things and a ransom of N50m was initially demanded, but was later reduced and they finally accepted N3 million after keeping her in a bush for six days.
The kidnappers ordered the victim’s son to drop the ransom at a rendezvous point along Ijebu-Ode Road, where one of them will come and pick up the money.
It was gathered that men of the Special Anti-robbery Squad, SARS, who were deployed to rendezvous point apprehended Niyi Omosola, who took the operatives to a forest, along Epe Road where the victim was rescued. Omosola however died of gunshot wounds during a gun duel with the police.
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