Samuel Ani, a casket (coffin) trader from Ugwuaji community in Enugu South localized Government locality of Enugu State was apprehended by operatives of Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Enugu State Police order, weekend, for trying to dupe his brothers of N2 million under the guise that he was abducted by kidnappers.
Ani, whose coffin shop is at Garki, Awkunanaw area of Enugu, supposedly hid himself in a wilderness behind his shop for six days and notified his brothers that he was in a kidnappers’ den.
The state Police Public Relations agent, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who verified the apprehend, yesterday, said the suspect “never knew that his sin will find him.”
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He said: “Samuel Ani hid himself in a wilderness behind his shop for six days from where he was making telephone calls to his two junior brothers in a very convincing pitch that he had been abducted and that N2 million was required to get him out of the kidnappers’ den or else he would be slain.
”Following this, the case was described to the state police order who activated its anti-kidnapping unit to rescue the casualty. When Samuel intensified his call that the purported kidnappers were on the verge of murdering him if his persons could not convey the ransom, he subsequent reduced the ransom to N1.2 million.
“Some cash was then made a down payment into the account number supplied by the purported kidnappers and a certain young female who went to money the initial N100,000 sent through one of the new lifetime banks around Agbani Road on August 29, 2013 was arrested by the operatives.
The girl was recognised as one Oluchi Faith Ogbu from Akpugo in Nkanu West localized Government locality of the state and a fiancee to Samuel Ani.
“When interrogated, Oluchi belief Ogbu said that the account pertains to her but was instructed by Samuel to supply the account number so that his male siblings can pay the ransom via the account and that she was to cash it as shortly as she obtains attentive of the fee and convey it to him.”
The police representative said Oluchi’s confession, although, directed to the apprehend of Samuel, who said he was not kidnapped but sustained that he kidnapped himself so that his rich younger brothers could pay ransom which he would use to sort out his business dealings.
He said apart from the knack he taken up, nothing would make his male siblings give him any monetary assistance even though he regretted his activities.
Ani admitted that the step he took was not good in the view of God, man or law and pleaded for forgiveness.
He said he is a father of five young kids but not ever revealed to Oluchi that he was married as he had pledged to wed her.
Asked if he was not making finishes rendezvous from the building and sale of coffins, Ani said he made low sales, and that he decided to trick the male siblings to get cash from them to address his direct trials which needed gigantic amount of money.
Amaraizu said Oluchi and Ani had been detained while investigations into the ugly incident had commenced.
Source: Vanguard
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