BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON
While his victim is still reeling from the pains and agony he caused him, a 23-year-old man, arrested for kidnapping in Edo State has said that he regretted that the baby cow he bought with proceeds of the crime died while he was trying to hide it from his father.
The suspect who identified himself simply as Sulie, born and raised at Okada town in Edo State by a Fulani herder was among 28 persons paraded today by Edo State Police Command for various crimes ranging from kidnapping, unlawful possession of firearms, cultism, armed robbery to defilement.
He admitted to having connived with others, one of them he said is already in prison custody to abduct a cocoa farmer in Ogbese village, Ovia local government area of Edo State, last year.
The suspect also said that a ransom of N2.3 million was collected from their victim and that he got N300,000.00 share.
“My role was that I showed them the roads after we kidnapped him. They gave me N300,000.00, I used N150,000.00 to buy small cow, I gave N20,000.00 to my small friend to buy clothes because he is also working with us to look after cows in Okada town.
“I also bought medicines for the small cow and I used the remaining money to buy shoes and shirts. I kept the small cow with my friend so that my father will not see it and start asking me where I got the money to buy it.
“Painfully, the baby cow died. Now I have been arrested. I regret ever listening to my friends who asked me join them to kidnap the man,” he stated
According to the police spokesman in Edo State SP Chidi Nwabuzor, operatives of the Anti-kidnapping and Cyber Crimes Unit apprehended him and his cohort following high tech-driven investigation.
Nwabuzor added that the suspects would be charged accordingly.
