Men of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested three brothers alongside four others for alleged kidnapping.The suspects identified as Joshua Agege Teteh 37, Robinson Ojakpovo 35, Moses Teteh 27, Happiness Johnson 29, Clad Teteh 35, Clement Kpewe, 36, and Manford Enone,37, were apprehended after a successful kidnapping operation at Maryland in Lagos.According to the police spokesman Samuel Jinadu, the kidnappers were arrested on their way back to Benin. He said, the kidnappers had kidnapped a woman who was a boss to one the kidnappers, Ojakpovo and demand a ransom of N12 million. He added that they were apprehended at Ojota during a stop and search by the police.He said some of the item recovered from them are two locally made pistol,24 live cartridges,one jack knife, charm, pliyer, one Nissan extra jeep, one ford bus and one Mazda 626 salon. Adding that investigation is still going and the suspect will soon be charge to court.The leader of the team identified as Agege while explaining his ordeal attributed his action in kidnapping to poverty. He said,it was poverty that lead him and his brother to kidnapping business as way of surviving since they have nothing to do.While pouring out his mind in sorrowful pain to newsmen at the police spokesman office, Agege said, '' It was one of our friends an ex-militant called Saturday Mogbolofor who is at large, that introduced us into the business. We carried out the first operation successfully without any problem, it was the second operation that one of our friend called Ojakpovo brought that put us into this everlasting mess. He told us that his boss had refused to pay him his salary at the pure water factory where he is working. He said he wants the team to kidnap his boss, because his boss had refused to pay him his salary after working for him as a driver for many years.'' The woman has the money but she is proving stubborn and she still threatens his life whenever he ask her the money''. 'After we agree to carry out the operation, Ojakpovo told us that the woman's office is at Move in Ogun State, that the moment he study her movement he will call us to come to Lagos because we live at Benin. So after someday he called us that we should come because the woman is around and that was how we move down to Lagos for the operation.Ojakpovo said he wanted the woman to be kidnap in order for him to get his money from her''. Agege stressed further that after studying the woman's movement for few days, they discovered that there is no one among them that can drive the woman car, and that was when they sent for his brother called Clad Tete.''In order for us to have a successful operation we have to phone my brother at Benin who can drive to us to Lagos, but we did not disclose our mission to him, we just asked him to come. Ojakpovo agreed to provide the hideout because he told me that we don't have anywhere as hideout in Lagos to keep the woman. He, Ojakpovo said he has a friend named Happiness Johnson that lived at Move, the back of Redeemed camp, and that was how he invited Happiness. When Happiness came she told us that she had a boat where we can put the woman for few days and that was how was all agree to do the job.Having studied her movement, we kidnapped her and took her to Move inside the boat where she spent five days. After kidnapping her, we asked her to phone her husband and tell him that she had been kidnapped. At the first call that the woman put through to her husband, her husband refused to listen to her before she later called her pastor who later talked to the husband, before he started conversing with us. We demanded for the ransom of twelve million Naira, from the husband, but he said, he can only afford 9.9 million Naira, and we agreed to that amount. Because we did not know his plan and in order to play safe, we asked him to bring the money to Lagos Benin express road, and that was where we collected the ransom from him. When we released the woman we gave her one thousand Naira for transport, and we shared the money among ourselves while my own share was two million. I used part the money to buy car and other things that I need. He lamented.He said, after the operation they all agreed to go back to their base at Benin before they were arrested by the police. ''On our way back to Benin, we met policemen at Ojota in Lagos doing stop and search, they stopped our car for searching and that was how they discovered some arms and amunition inside our traveling bag in the car.
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