Ani, whose coffin shop is at Garki,
Awkunanaw area of Enugu, allegedly hid himself in a bush behind his shop for
six days and alerted his brothers that he was in a kidnappers’ den.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere
Amaraizu, who confirmed the arrest, yesterday, said the suspect “never knew
that his sin shall find him.
He said: “Samuel Ani hid himself in a bush behind his shop
for six days from where he was making phone calls to his two younger brothers
in a very convincing tone that he had been abducted and that N2 million was
required to get him out of the kidnappers’ den or else he would be killed.
”Following this, the case was reported to the state police
command who mobilised its anti-kidnapping unit to rescue the victim. When
Samuel intensified his call that the purported kidnappers were on the verge of
killing him if his people could not bring the ransom, he later reduced the
ransom to N1.2 million.
“Some money was then deposited into the account number
provided by the purported kidnappers and a certain girl who went to cash the
initial N100,000 sent through one of the new generation banks around Agbani
Road on August 29, 2013 was arrested by the operatives.
”The girl was identified as one Oluchi Faith Ogbu from
Akpugo in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state and a fiancee to Samuel
Ani.
“When interrogated, Oluchi Faith Ogbu said that the account
belongs to her but was instructed by Samuel to supply the account number so
that his brothers can pay the ransom via the account and that she was to cash
it as soon as she receives alert of the payment and bring it to him.”
The police spokesman said Oluchi’s confession, however, led
to the arrest of Samuel, who said he was not kidnapped but maintained that he
kidnapped himself so that his wealthy younger brothers could pay ransom which
he would use to sort out his business dealings.
He said apart from the trick he adopted, nothing would make
his brothers give him any monetary assistance even though he regretted his
actions.
Ani admitted that the step he took was not good in the sight
of God, man or law and pleaded for forgiveness.
He said he is a father of five children but never revealed
to Oluchi that he was married as he had promised to marry her. Asked if he was
not making ends meet from the construction and sale of coffins, Ani said he
made low sales, and that he decided to trick the brothers to get money from
them to address his immediate challenges which required huge amount of money.
Amaraizu said Oluchi and Ani had been detained while
investigations into the ugly incident had commenced.
One
Samuel Ani, a casket (coffin) dealer from Ugwuaji community in Enugu
South Local Government Area of Enugu State was arrested by operatives of
Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Enugu State Police Command, weekend, for
attempting to dupe his brothers of N2 million under the guise that he
was abducted by kidnappers.
Ani, whose coffin shop is at Garki, Awkunanaw area of Enugu, allegedly hid himself in a bush behind his shop for six days and alerted his brothers that he was in a kidnappers’ den.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the arrest, yesterday, said the suspect “never knew that his sin shall find him.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/casket-seller-kidnaps-self-demands-n2m-ranson-from-brothers/#sthash.fQTgBSlW.dpuf
Ani, whose coffin shop is at Garki, Awkunanaw area of Enugu, allegedly hid himself in a bush behind his shop for six days and alerted his brothers that he was in a kidnappers’ den.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the arrest, yesterday, said the suspect “never knew that his sin shall find him.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/casket-seller-kidnaps-self-demands-n2m-ranson-from-brothers/#sthash.fQTgBSlW.dpuf
Kidnapping
for ransom which has remained the quickest means of making money among
criminals within the South-East zone has taken a new dimension as some
dubious people now hide under the evil practice to dupe their wealthy
relations.
One Samuel Ani, a casket (coffin) dealer from Ugwuaji community in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State was arrested by operatives of Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Enugu State Police Command, weekend, for attempting to dupe his brothers of N2 million under the guise that he was abducted by kidnappers.
Ani, whose coffin shop is at Garki, Awkunanaw area of Enugu, allegedly hid himself in a bush behind his shop for six days and alerted his brothers that he was in a kidnappers’ den.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the arrest, yesterday, said the suspect “never knew that his sin shall find him.”
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/casket-seller-kidnaps-self-demands-n2m-ranson-from-brothers/#sthash.fQTgBSlW.dpuf
One Samuel Ani, a casket (coffin) dealer from Ugwuaji community in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State was arrested by operatives of Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Enugu State Police Command, weekend, for attempting to dupe his brothers of N2 million under the guise that he was abducted by kidnappers.
Ani, whose coffin shop is at Garki, Awkunanaw area of Enugu, allegedly hid himself in a bush behind his shop for six days and alerted his brothers that he was in a kidnappers’ den.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the arrest, yesterday, said the suspect “never knew that his sin shall find him.”
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/casket-seller-kidnaps-self-demands-n2m-ranson-from-brothers/#sthash.fQTgBSlW.dpuf
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