A member of a kidnappers’ gang which abducted the daughter of the
Special Adviser to the Kwara State Governor on Political Matters, Alhaji
Usman Bibire, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command.
According to the police, the gang
allegedly lured Sa-adat, who was a recent winner of a beauty pageant, to
come over to Delta as Dangote was ready to make her a brand ambassador
of Dangote Noodles.
Our correspondent learnt the victim
travelled from Lagos to Warri to meet the gang, from where she was
driven away to Uzoro and locked up in a hideout.
The police also arrested Patrick Ifada, a member of the gang, while other gang members fled on suspecting the police’s presence.
speaking with authentic gossip on
Wednesday, 23-year-old Ifada said the gang had set up a bank account in
Malaysia where they instructed Bibire to pay the ransom.
He said, “We opened a fake Facebook account bearing Alhaji Aliko Dangote. We met the lady on Facebook as
a beauty pageant winner and convinced her to come to Delta State. We
said she would sign an endorsement with a company under the Dangote
Group.
“She fell for the bait and came. When
she arrived in Warri, we sent a taxi cab to meet her and she was taken
to Uzoro ─ our base.While she was with us, we made her to call her
parents in Lagos and we demanded a N20m ransom.
“I was the one assigned to stay with her in the hideout. She was with us for about two weeks.
“We asked the special adviser to pay the money into a Malaysian account we had set up. It was owned by one Fred.”
Ifada, who claimed to be a National
Diploma 1 student of the polytechnic, added that he was warned by the
gang leader, identified simply as Destiny, not to rape or assault the
lady.
“The five of us in the gang are students
of the polytechnic. I accepted to join the gang because of the money
they promised to pay me.
“Nobody raped her while I stayed with
her. Destiny warned us that we were to make money from her family and
not to assault her,” he said.
Our correspondent learnt that the police
arrested Ifada and rescued the victim inside a private school’s hostel
on Onitsha Street, Uzoro, Delta State, which they used as a hideout.
Other fleeing members of the gang were identified as Destiny, Omajuwa, Ugada and Chuka.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police,
Cornelius Aderanti, while noting that efforts were on to arrest the
fleeing members of the gang, assured Lagos residents of a crime-free
yuletide.
He said, “We received the complaint in Lagos from the S.A. and I promised him that my men were going to rescue his daughter.
