Fernando was arrested at
Ogbe-Isoko community when he went to collect an additional ransom of N50,000
from the victim’s relatives, having collected N250,000 initially.
The fifty-year-old Italian
kidnap syndicate, Blessing Fernando was arrested for abducting an victim in
Delta State.
Prior to his arrest, the
suspect was residing at Evowe Quarters of Ozoro in Isoko North Local Government
Area.
The state Commissioner of
Police, Zanna Ibrahim, who paraded him alongside 22 suspected kidnappers and
three armed at the command headquarters in Asaba yesterday, said the kidnapping
syndicate had terrorised Ozoro and its environs for years.
“He was arrested at a scene
where he came to collect ransom of additional sum of N50,000 from the victim’s
relatives having robbed the victim the sum of N250,000.
Effort to arrest other
fleeing gang members is on course as case will be charged to court soon,” the
commissioner said.
On interrogation, the
suspect, who confessed to be a member of the kidnapping syndicate, said he was
co-opted under duress after he was duped of N600,000.
He said: “They forced me to
become their member, if I must get back my money. My desperation to recover my
money from them has landed me in this mess. They told me to go and wait at the
scene where I was arrested for somebody who will bring some money from which
they will offset what they had defrauded me. ”
Fernando said his mother
hailed from Isoko ethnic group in Delta State while his father was an Italian.
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