The Delta State Police Command has arrested four individuals for conspiring with kidnappers to receive ransom payments through their bank accounts, with the suspects admitting to deducting a percentage of the ransom as their share.
The Delta State Police Command has arrested four individuals for conspiring with kidnappers to receive ransom payments through their bank accounts.
The suspects, Chimerije Joshua Nwakpa, Eze Levy Onyekachi, Ezemma Maxwell Nnadozie, and Emmanuel Otubo, were paraded at the state police command in Asaba, the state capital.
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According to the Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, “They work in conspiracy with kidnappers.
They are always in touch with kidnappers. Once they kidnap their victims and they are looking for where to send the ransom money to, they will contact this force man (pointing at one of the suspects) who contracts his friends to provide an account number where the ransom money will be sent to.”
Nwakpa, one of the suspects, admitted to receiving ransom payments and deducting a percentage as his share. “The first ransom paid to my account was N3.6 million; second ransom was N4.3 million while the third ransom was N200,000. My share from the N3.6 million ransom was N530,000 which is 15% of the total amount,” he said.
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The police spokesperson urged residents to report any suspicious activities to the police, saying, “We call on residents of Delta State to be bold to report any crime or suspicious activities in their areas to the police, whether before, during or after it has happened.”
