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18—SATURDAY Vanguard, NOVEMBER 12, 2022
I spent N1m , sleeping with two prostitutes
daily, for one month — Kidnap suspect
By Evelyn Usman
Operatives of the Intelligence
Response Team of the Nigeria
Police Force Intelligence
Bureau FIB-IRT have arrested four
suspected members of a kidnap
syndicate that abducted wife of a
popular Rivers-based businessman,
eight months ago.
The woman , Mrs Hussana Adamu,
was on her way to drop her children at
school when the armed kidnappers
intercepted her near Casablanca Club ,
Government Reserved Area , Port
Harcourt, Rivers State.
They dragged her out of her car and
ordered her into their operational
vehicle before zooming off, with haze
of dust billowing .
She was released a week later, after
payment of N20 million ransom.
Arrests
.Acting on credible information, DCP
Tunji Disu- led team arrested four of the
suspects: Isiaka Hamidu, 30, who hails
from Adamawa State; Nwasaneo
Goodluck , 34 ; Victor Nwidee, 29 and
ThankGod Bariledun , 36 , all from
Khana Local Government Area .of
Rivers State.
The prime suspect, Isiaka Hamidu,
who sells parrot and peacock in Port
Harcourt, disclosed during
interrogation that he invited other
members of the syndicate to abduct Mrs
Adamu.
Before inviting them, he said he took
some days to obtain necessary
Information about her , especially her
movements and the timing.
Revenge mission
He further stated that he kidnapped
the woman to avenge an alleged ill
treatment of his younger brother by her
husband, Musa Ahmad, who hails from
Maiduguri, Borno state but resides in
Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
According to him, “ one of my
brothers worked for Alhaji Musa
Ahmad, for 11 years. When he left to
•Says victim was kidnapped to
avenge brother’s ill treatment
get married, all Alhaji Ahmad could pay
my brother was N250,000.
“ I was not happy with him because
everyone knew he was very rich and could
afford more than that. I decided to
kidnap him or any member of his family
“ I contacted Goodluck, a long-time
friend and told him about the situation.
He was also angry and bought my
kidnap idea .
“ Good luck in turn called leader of
the gang , Ojukwu, who mobilized and
coordinated the woman’s kidnap, after I
showed them her house. But I did not
join them for the operation so that no one
would recognize me”
The largess
He said he got N1.3 million as his share
of the ransom. When asked what he used
the money for, he said, “ I used N1 million
out of it to
f*** ashawo( commercial
sex workers)
I lodged in a hotel ,
invited prostitutes every
night for one month
I slept with at least
two ashawos every
night for one month and
I paid them N20,000
each.
“ I used the remaining
N300,000 to plant corn in the village”,
he said, maintaining that it was his first
time of indulging in kidnap.
On his part, Goodluck, a Higher
National Diploma holder from the Abia
State Polytechnic Aba, admitted to have
collected N5.5millon from leader of the
gang after ransom was paid.
He said, “ out of it, I took N2 million,
gave Isiaka N1.3 million while Victor got
N500,000..
Another suspect, ThankGod, said he
had no idea that members of the gang
were into kidnapping .
He said he was contacted to use his
vehicle to convey them to a place in
Bori Khana Local Government Area of
the state, after the kidnap.
“ Leader of the gang told me to take
him somewhere in my car. On the way I
picked three other friends of his .
From there, he directed me to
where it was later discovered to
be close to the victim’s house,
where they kidnapped her and
directed me to their hideout .
That was when I knew they
were kidnappers”
The fourth suspect, Victor,
stated that his role was to
monitor the victim’s
movement and relate same to
other members of the gang who
were waiting patiently for the
appropriate time to strike.
He also admitted to
have collected
N500,000 from
Goodluck, as his
share of the ransom,
revealing that he
used the largesse to
repair his Toyota
Corolla car,
Meanwhile, the
Police said
preliminary
investigation
revealed that
suspected leader of the gang, Ojukwu ,
is also leader of a deadly cult group
known as Dem-Bam in Khann area, who
has been on their wanted list.
A mini bus, a Toyota Avensis with
tinted glass and one Toyota Corolla car
were recovered from the suspects .
Gun-wielding men chase away pupils in Anambra school
By Vincent Ujumadu
IT was a pitiable sight at Kings Planet
International School, Awka last
week when the pupils and toddlers
cried uncontrollably on sighting guns
wielded by security operatives who
accompanied officials of the Anambra
State Advertising and Signage Agency,
ANSAA, to enforce non payment of
signage fee by the school.
During the invasion, the revenue agents
dragged the children out of their
classrooms in an attempt to seal the
school for allegedly owing the state
government N100,000 for mounting the
school’s signboard that directs people to
the school.
Parents who got wind of the
development stormed the school and
hurriedly evacuated their children. Since
then, some of the parents have not brought
back their children to the school, citing
insecurity.
A teaching staff in the school, Modesta
Odo, who narrated their ordeal to
Saturday Vanguard described what
happened in the school as terrifying.
Odo said: “It was very terrifying to see
the armed men move into the compound
in a commando manner. Immediately we
saw them, our manager got in touch with
our director to talk with them, but they
were more interested in frightening
everyone present.
“They moved into the classrooms and
were dragging the children out and telling
them that they wanted to close down the
school. While I asked the teachers to close
the classrooms so that the children would
• Other suspects
not see the guns, they were busy dragging
them out and holding the gun on the other
hand.
“All the people that came were men, with
some wearing police and civil defence
uniforms and on sighting them, the
children started crying.
“In this school, we have four month- old
babies and all of them were crying.
Despite our plea for them to just seal the
school and leave the children alone, they
kept on dragging them out. It was a sorry
situation seeing the children running and
crying.
”They even ensured that our CCTV
cameras were disabled and they prevented
us from putting on the generating set to
Kings Planet International School,
Awka invaded by revenue agents
• Isiaka
Hamidu
power the CCTV. When I tried to record
the incident with my phone, they snatched
it from me and deleted everything in it. If
they were carrying out a legal activity,
why were they afraid of being recorded?”
According to Odo, the people who
attacked the school came in a bus and
insisted that the school must pay what it
was owing the state government before
they would leave, adding that “one of them
even brought his Point of Sale, POS,
machine with which we withdrew money
from and paid them. They collected cash of
N25,000 while N50,000 was paid into an
account they gave us”.
She added: “It was unheard of that people
should enter a school premises with arms
and physically drag children out of their
classes because they wanted to collect
government revenue. The question is, will
they do this where their own children are
schooling?” It was not as if we did not want
to pay, but the issue was to know the actual
amount the school was to pay”.
The assistant manager of the school, Mr.
Emmanuel Emeka explained that ANSAA
had earlier slammed N100,000 charge on
the school for four billboards, whereas the
school has only one signboard, while another
N50,000 was imposed as a penalty.
Emeka said: “What happened was that they
came and said that Kings Planet was supposed
to pay N100,000 for four signboards.
Knowing that we didn’t have up to four
signboards, we told them to cross check
and they assured us that they would
investigate and get back to us.
“Our director even had to place a call to
the agency to find out if they had cross
checked. The director of ANSAA told him
that he would get back to him and that was
where the whole thing was.
“We were waiting to hear from them only
for officials of the agency to come with some
police officers and Civil Defence
operatives.”
Reacting on the allegation by the school,
the Managing Director/CEO of the agency,
Mr. Odili UjubuoEu said the school had
paid N100,000 into the account of the state
government.
“Payment was received by the Anambra
Internal Revenue Service, AIRS. ANSAA
doesn’t receive payment”, Ujubuonu said.
He also said that there is government POS
which the enforcers go with and admitted
that payment was made into the POS by
officials of the school.