Housewife, three others nabbed for plotting husband’s kidnap

A housewife, Memunat Salaudeen, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun state Police Command for planning with three others to kidnap her husband.

This was revealed in a statement issued on Tuesday by the spokesman of the Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi.

According to Oyeyemi, Salaudeen was arrested on November 1, 2021 alongside three others suspects at about 6:30pm along Papa/Itori Road while men of Federal Highway patrol team, led by Inspector Sunday Imohiosen, were on stop and search duty.

The team accosted three young men: Olayinka Lawal, Asungba Nura and Usman Oluwatoyin, whose looks were highly suspicious on a motorcycle and stopped them for search.

While searching them, a cutlass and a new strong rope were recovered from them.

The team quickly separated them and questioned them individually about their mission in that area with the rope and cutlass.

The three of them gave different answers to the question.

This further aroused the suspicion of the policemen, who then decided to interrogate them more.

In the course of interrogation, the three of them confessed that it was one woman, who was later identified as Salaudeen, that gave them N8,000 to buy a cutlass and a rope strong enough to tie a human being.

They confessed further that the woman, who is a nurse in their area at Balogun Tuntun Gas Line, Ifo, asked them to go and hide somewhere along that road and that she will lure her husband to the place where they will kidnap him and tie him with the rope and then ask for ransom.

They further informed the police that the woman told them that kidnapping her husband was the only way she can get money from him.

She accused him of being very stingy despite the fact that he has money.

The woman was subsequently brought to the scene and on seeing the arrested suspects, she admitted being the brain behind the whole thing.

Salaudeen told the policemen that her husband has not been giving her money and that she decided to plan his kidnap in order to get money from him at all cost.

The Commissioner, Ogun State Police Command, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.