Police arrest suspected kidnapper of The Sun DMD’s wife

LAGOS—The Police in Lagos  have arrested one of the  suspected kidnappers of  wife of The Sun  Deputy Managing Director, Mrs Toyin Nwosu. The suspect, Vanguard gathered, was arrested in Kogi State.
However, the suspect,  Odo Sylvester, an undergraduate of  Kogi State University, claimed he only posed as one of the kidnappers in order to extort money from Mr Steve Nwosu, to buy some handouts and furnish his apartment.
Sylvester, a 200 level student of Economics, told  a bewildered crowd at the Lagos State Police Command where he was paraded alongside 44 other suspected criminals, yesterday that he demanded N2 million as ransom from Mr. Nwosu.
He said: “I am not a kidnapper. I do not know what a kidnapper  looks like. Greed led me into this. When I read about the kidnap of The Sun DMD’s wife abduction, I decided to  hijack the opportunity to play a fast one on her husband in order to raise money to buy some handouts and also furnish my apartment.
“Immediately, I bought a copy  of The Sun newspaper and got the number of the  DMD from the back page. I dialled the number and demanded for N100,000 from him, saying I would assist him secure the release of his wife. He told me he had N2.5 million on ground as ransom. When I heard that, I became cold because I have never counted a million in my life, let alone N2.5 million.
“He told me to send my account details but I told him  I would get back to him. When I called again, I demanded for N2 million.


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