Nigerian police operatives/Photo: AFP
Police in Imo state have arrested a suspected kidnapper Nnamdi Ethelbert Ogidi who prefers kidnapping aged ladies.
The 34-year-old Ogidi was arrested by detectives hooked up to the Anti-kidnapping Squad of the Imo State Police command.
He was mentioned to have confessed to the police that he and his gang members had kidnapped 15 aged ladies.
His gang members are at present at massive.
Ogidi was caught after he kidnapped Regina Nkwocha, a 74-year-old girl from Umuanyika, Ngorokpala space of Imo state.
As said by studies, they have been negotiating for N20million ransom when detectives busted their hideout at Umuaguma in Owerri west, on 23 May.
Ogidi, on the police station, confessed that he joined a gang of kidnappers 5 years in the past.
“I am from Imo state and after dropping out of senior secondary school, I learnt how to become a mechanic,” he mentioned.
”Along the road I met dangerous mates who initiated me into the lethal cult group often called Debam fraternity. Most of them have been into one dangerous factor or the opposite, so it was simple for me to hitch a gang of kidnappers who're additionally members of the cult.
“We derive pleasure in kidnapping aged ladies and whereas their members of the family might be operating round for ransom, we are going to take turns to rape the ladies.
”Our hideout is at Egbema native authorities. We favor aged ladies as a result of it's simpler to manage them and their members of the family are all the time in a hurry to pay for his or her launch” he mentioned.