The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a Lebanese for orchestrating the kidnap of his aunt and demanding a ransom of N100 million.
The suspect, Mohammed Dannawi, told journalists that he planned the kidnapped of his 61-year-old aunt, Essa Dannawi, not because of the ransom, but because he wanted to punish her just as she had punished him and his wife.
Dannawi however would not state how Essa punished him and his wife, to have warranted the kidnapping of his aunt.
Apparently determined to teach his aunt a lesson, Mohammed planned the kidnap with his aunt’s former staff, Obi Kwentua.
According to Dannawi, he made a spare key to his aunt’s duplex and gave it to Kwentua.
Kwentua gave the key to one Tee-boy, who arranged with four other men and fixed a day for the kidnapping.
On the appointed, Dannawi was conveniently not home.
The gang, which had lodged at a hotel adjacent to the home of Essa, scaled the fence that divided the hotel from the victim’s home.
The woman’s security guards were said to have fled after they saw that the men were armed to the teeth.
Essa was taken away.
According to the police, the kidnappers demanded for N100 million, but the money was beaten down to N4 million.
Dannawi however insisted that it was not N100 million they demanded, but N15 million.
The spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command, Ngozi Braide, stated that on May 2, 2013, Essa was kidnapped at her residence in Ebute Metta West, Lagos State.
The case was transferred to Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja on May 6 and the Officer-in-Charge of SARS, SP Abba Kyari, arrested members of the family and staff, since experience had shown that most kidnapping were carried out by those who are close to the victims.
After an extensive interview with all the arrested parties, useful information was gathered and Dannawi, a nephew and staff of the victim, was detained.
Braide said: “Upon interrogation, Mohammed confessed to have organized the kidnapping of his aunt because she offended him. Thereafter, SARS detectives, led by Kyari, immediately used him to stage and arrested the leader of the kidnappers, Obi Kwentua.
He was arrested at Rita Lori Hotel, Surulere, where he came to collect N4 million ransom, which he demanded from the relatives of the victim.
Eventually, the victim was rescued at their hideout in Oyingbo area of Lagos State.
It was gathered that after Dannawi opened up to investigators, several family members of Tee-boy were arrested.
When the suspect realized that the heat and tension was high, he and other members of the gang were said to have bundled Essa to a particular area and released her.
In an attempt to arrest Kwentua, the police released Dannawi, who went home and embarked on his routine like he had no care in the world.
Kwentua was fooled into believing that Dannawi had been left off the hook.
He was unaware that police officers were trailing and monitoring his every move.
Police are presently hunting for Tee-boy.
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