3rd September, 2022
A housewife in Akwa Ibom State, Mrs Joy Emmanuel said she plotted with others to kidnap her husband, Emmanuel Ebong because he was denying him sex and money.
The 40-year old housewife spoke to journalists after she was paraded for allegedly for allegedly arranging the kidnap of her husband at the Uyo headquarters of Akwa Ibom Police Command on Friday.
Joy said said Ebong, an indigene of Ntak Obio Akpa in Oruk Anam Local Government Area of the state not only starve her of sex, but also refused to provide for the family.
She said “I arranged for my husband’s kidnapping because, for a long time, he had abandoned me with his children. Even when my father and mother-in-law were alive, he abandoned me. He never cared for his children. I engaged in menial jobs such as weeding on people’s farms to feed my children and pay their school fees.
“One of the children finished from secondary school and I approached my husband to plan how to send the son to learn trade since the father refused to send him to university but my husband shunned me. The major reason i arranged for his kidnapping is that my husband refused to have sex with me and does not take care of me and the children.”
”I did menial jobs to fend for the family. I arranged his kidnap because I needed money to take care of the family.
But Joy lamented that she was not given part of the ransom money after the abduction was successful.
She mentioned one Udo Moji, now at large, as the leader of the gang she engaged for her husband’s abduction.
She said, ”They collected the money from me and never gave anything to me. Some members of the group who were arrested while spending the money mentioned my name to the police.”
Also speaking, Ebong said that he was kidnapped at about 8.30 p.m., on July 21 shortly after entering his house.
“They took me out of my compound in a mini bus. They kept me for four days and demanded the sum of N2million as ransom.
”They took me me to Etinan where they caged me. I am very fortunate that the police came on a rescue operation.
‘They collected N2 million from me. The police later recovered about N500,000 from them,” he said.
Durosinmi said that the police command in the state would leave no stone unturned to stamp out criminals and criminality.
(NAN) (www.nannews.ng)