Police in Akwa Ibom State on Friday paraded arrested a 40-year old housewife, Joy Sunday, for kidnapping her husband.
The suspect confessed to the crime, saying she joined others to kidnap her husband because he starved her of s*x and money.
Those she engaged to kidnap her husband reportedly demanded N10 million ransom but later reduced it to N2 million.
After receiving the ransom they were arrested by the police while sharing the loot.
Interviewed by reporters during her parade by the state Commissioner of Police, Olatoye Durosinmi, the suspect said she had been subjected to doing all sorts of menial jobs to cater for herself and their children since her husband had abandoned her for another woman.
She said: “I arranged for my husband’s kidnapping because, for a long time, he had abandoned me with our children. Even when my father and mother were alive he abandoned me. He never cared for our children. I engaged in menial jobs like 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.”
Speaking further, the woman, who said she did not collect her share of the ransom from the abductors before she was arrested by the police, continued: “The kidnapper that collected the ransom of N2 million never gave my share and I don’t even see the money. It was when the kidnappers were sharing the N2 million that the police arrested them and they mentioned me. They never gave me any part of the ransom collected from my husband.
“The kidnap leader (now at large), 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.”
Also, speaking with newsmen, the victim, Emmanuel Sampson Ebong, who hails from Ntak Obio Akpa in Oruk Anam Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom 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.
“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.
