The police in Delta state have arrested a 31-year-old man identified as Chukwuemeka Destiny, for allegedly attempting to k!dnap his aunt who had raised him from the age of five.
Parading the suspect on Saturday, April 25, the command’s spokesperson, SP Edafe Bright, said the victim took Destiny in when he was five and raided him until he turned 15. Edafe said he left home and many years later, returned to his aunty’s house where he planned for her abduction.
Edafe said the plot was one of a disturbing pattern of violence against those who extend help to others.
“All of a sudden something just came up to his mind that let me k!dnap my auntie who trained me, who saw me through school, and that was what he did,” Edafe said.
He said Destiny made two separate payments to the would-be abductors, an initial deposit of N200,000, followed by a second payment of N700,000.
Edafe mentioned that the plot unravelled after the men Destiny approached turned out not to be kidnappers. Rather than carry out the abduction, they used him as bait, lured him in and handed him over to the police.
“Unknown to him that the people he contacted were not kidnappers. They rather used him as bait, got him and handed him over to the police thereby saving the life of his auntie,” Bright said
During interrogation, the suspect admitted commiting the crime but has no idea why he committed it.
“Sincerely speaking to you, I am guilty of what really happened. I don’t know what came over me. I can’t tell. It’s the devil’s work” he said.
The aunt, who described Destiny as the son of her elder sister, told journalists she was shocked when she learnt of the plot.
“I was shocked. Crying,” she said. trying to hold back tear.
Despite their blood ties, she asked for the full weight of the law to be exercised on the suspect.
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