‘I got N50,000 for abducting reverend sisters’, says suspect

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested one of the suspected kidnappers who abducted two reverend sisters and their driver last month.

The suspect, identified as Philip Isiga, aged 25, confessed to have received a sum of N50,000 as his own share of the deal.

The command paraded Isiga alongside other suspects at the headquarters in Akure, Ondo State capital on Friday.

The Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Hilda Ibirufo-Harrison, identified Isiga as one of kidnappers’ squad.

Rev. Sr. Perpetual Apo and Rev. Sr. Roseline Familade with their driver, Mr. Zwugwa Zibai, were kidnapped on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at Kajola village along Benin-Ijebu Local Council of the state. They were though released a week after.

Isiga, who hails from Delta State, disclosed that he was introduced to the nefarious act by one Ufoma, who the police said had been arrested too but is currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital.

“When my pure water business was not moving well again, Ufoma came to me and advised me to join him in his business, I didn’t know it was a kidnapping work. I stayed in the bush when they abducted the sisters.

“Later, Ufoma told me he collected N200,000 from the family of the victims and he gave me N50,000 out of it as my own share,” he said.

Beaming more searchlight on their hideouts and where the victims were hidden in the area, the suspect, who lived at Idepe in Okitipupa Local Council of the state, said he was not actively involved, saying only their leader could give reliable answers.

He pointed at Ufoma as the leader of the kidnap syndicate in the area, alleging to the fact that Ufoma had participated in all the abductions that had occurred in the local council in recent times.

The police commissioner declared that the command was already on the trail of other suspects at large, assuring that those ones arrested in connection to the kidnap and other crimes would soon be charged to court.