ENUGU — 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.”
The suspects, Samuel Ani
(right) and Oluchi Faith Ogbu
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.
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