By Barth Ndego
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Twenty four years old kidnap Kingpin, Ikechukwu Oscar has allegedly confessed that he organized the kidnap of a businessman simply identified as Emeka in Asaba in order to recover N100,000 debt owed him by the businessman for working as a gardener for him.
Oscar was reported to have executed the kidnap with his gang members following his alleged indebtedness of N100, 000 to him.
The suspect, among others paraded by the police at the State Police Command on Tuesday, by the Police Commissioner, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim, told news men, that his involvement in the kidnap saga of the businessman identified as Emeka was a result of Emeka not willing to pay him his N100, 000 he was owing him.
According to the suspect; “I was working for Emeka as Gardener in Government House Asaba when he won the contract to maintain Government House. I worked for six months. He did not pay me. The total amount is N100, 000 hence I planned his kidnap with my gang members, ” Oscar disclosed.
Urhobotoday learnt that nemesis however caught with him and his gang members on their way to Okpanam road around Akpu Junction in tricycle where police detectives stopped them and upon search, they recovered three face mask materials, wraps of Indian hemp from them.
In another development, the police in Kwale have killed a notorious robbery suspect identified as Jonathan aleas GSM in exchange of gun battle.
Mr. Zanna Ibrahim confirmed that the suspect was killed after he (suspect) and his gang members kidnapped a bank manager and escaped adding that Luck ran out of them when the police acted on a tip-off to engage them in a gun battle around Kwale Express Way where the police gained upper hands.