The Ogun State Police Command has arrested three men, Peter Nse (24), Chuckwuma Nwobodo (48) and Michael Umanah (30), for attempting to kidnap their former employer who sacked them in Ijebu-Ode.
The police spokesman in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the three were arrested after a complaint lodged at the Igbeba Division by one Ifenuga Olayinka, that he received an SMS phone from someone who described himself as “Killer Vagabond of Africa”.
Oyeyemi further said that Killer Vagabond of Africa directed the complainant to pay N5m into a bank account sent to him or risk being kidnapped within the shortest time.
He said the police thereafter embarked on “technical and intelligence-based investigation” which led them to Anambra State, where two of the suspects, Nse and Nwobodo, were apprehended.
Their arrest, he said, led the detectives to Ago Iwoye, where the third suspect, Umanah, was nabbed.
He explained that, “It was when they were brought before the complainant that he identified them as his former employees who he laid off not quite long ago for misconduct.
“They claimed to have made the attempt just because they were not happy as the complainant terminated their appointments.”
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