Two minors arrested for self-kidnapping in Ondo

Two minors arrested for self-kidnapping in Ondo

Two teenagers who allegedly orchestrated their own kidnap and demanded the sum of N100,000 as ransom were among the 18 suspected kidnappers paraded on Monday, by men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, Amotekun.

The siblings, aged 15 and 13 years, who are in Junior Secondary School 3 and Senior Secondary School 1, told newsmen that the plan was initiated to punish their mother who used to maltreat and make life miserable for them.

One of the girls said “I was the one who initiated the plan because I wanted to punish my mother, who has been behaving as if she is not my mother. I never wanted to use the money for anything but just to punish her.”

Speaking on the arrest of the two young girls, the Amotekun commander, Adetunji Adeleye, said the two minors from Oka-Akoko, Akoko South West Local Government Area of the state, kidnapped themselves and demanded N100,000 ransom from their parents and the traditional ruler of the community.

Adeleye said the two girls were arrested in a hotel after staying in the hotel for four days and said “their parents raised an alarm that their children were kidnapped and reported at Amotekun office, and we swung into action but when they called for ransom we tracked their number and we were able to arrest them, but the young girls attributed their action to the high handedness of their mother.

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“We appreciate the Department of State Service (DSS) for assisting us in apprehending them. When they were negotiating, they even threatened the traditional ruler that if the ransom was not paid within two hours they are going to kill the victims without knowing that they are the criminals perpetrating the act.”

He also disclosed that a middle-aged woman, identified as Ajara Salamat was apprehended by the security operatives for preparing food for kidnappers and kidnapped victims, providing daily needs for the kidnappers in the forest.

He said “We have Coker Noah who held two ladies hostage and employed two other men to torture and rape them for weeks before one of the victims had access to the phone and called us and we were able to apprehend them.

“Also, we have a family where the mother specializes in buying daily needs including food for kidnap suspects and victims in Owo and Ifon.

“We equally apprehended some kidnappers in the forest with several ATMs found on them, which they could not explain how they came about it but we suspect that the ATMs belong to the victims they held hostage and a lot of other things which they could not justify how it came to them”

Two minors arrested for self-kidnapping in Ondo