A 40-year-old woman, Mrs Joy Sunday, who
was arrested by the Akwa Ibom Police Command for conspiracy over the kidnap of
her husband, on Friday, opened up on why she masterminded her partner’s
abduction.
She said she involved herself in the act
because her husband had starved her of sex and money for too long.
FACTUAL NAIJA NEWS gathered that the
kidnappers demanded N10m as ransom and later reduced it to N2m which was paid
before the police arrested them 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, said she had 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 added that when one of her children
finished secondary education, there was no money to send him for further
studies.
She said, “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 inlaws were alive he abandoned me. He never
cared for his children. I engaged in menial jobs such as weeding on people’s
farms to feed my 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.”
“The kidnapper that collected the ransom of
N2million never gave my share and I don’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 soup on me. So, I agreed
with him and he kidnapped my husband. I ran around to gather money to pay the
kidnappers. The main suspect, Udo Moji ran away.
Narrating his ordeal, the husband of the
suspect, Mr. Emmanuel Sampson Ebong, who hailed from Ntak Obio Akpa in Oruk
Anam Local Government Area of the state said, “I was kidnapped on July 21, 2022
in my compound.
“I came back from where I went for
treatment because I was weak. Around 8.30pm, I saw about six people in my
compound. They struggled with me and fired two gunshots into the air, I
struggled with them before they took me out of my compound in a minibus and
drove away.
He added, “They kept me from that Thursday
till Sunday and demanded N10m from me and later reduced it to N2m before the
police came that day, If not for God, they would have killed me.
“They took me to Etinan where they kept me.
I thank the Nigeria Police for the rescue operations. I also thank my Village
Head. I don’t know the reason they kidnapped me, they collected N2m from me.
The police later recovered over 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.