The Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Ojukwu, on Thursday, paraded two ladies, who allegedly stage-managed their mother’s kidnap.
They were arrested alongside the boyfriend to one of them called Egbe.
Egbe was arrested and he confessed how Hannah’s daughters invited him to the business to enable them collect money from their elder brother, Eric, based in Lagos.
“Ransom of N2.5 million naira was demanded, while N500,000.00 was agreed to be paid, though nothing was paid. Suspects all confessed to the crime.”
While being interviewed, the two girls claimed to have executed the crime as a last measure towards raising money for their mother’s medical treatment. One of them, a graduate of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, who was to go for her NYSC program, by end of this month said: “we have been begging our brother to bring money for our mother’s eye treatment but he refused.
The eye problem became so much and we had no option; we decided to do that in order to raise money. We took her to a hotel at the Camp and paid for a room there. I brought my friend and he helped us in arranging the kidnap. He was the one calling our brother, but he refused to bring money.
He said the kidnappers can eat her if they liked. We didn’t hurt her at all; it was all for our mum’s good, though we didn’t tell her. She got to know later, and she has been begging the police to drop the case. As we speak her medical condition is even getting worse.”
