The Police Abia State has arrested a kidnap gang that killed a businessman, Uzoma Daniel after collecting N700, 000 ransom from his wife.
Daniel, aged 37, was killed at the kidnappers’ den at Ntighauzo in Obingwa Local Government Area of the state after the kidnap had assured of his release after collecting ransom.
He was said to have been seized by the gang as he made to drive into his compound at the Ngwa road area of Aba.
Pointblanknews.com gathered that luck ran against the gang while they were about to collect another sum of N300, 000 which they demanded from the deceased’s wife without telling her that her husband was dead.
Police sources told Pointblanknews.com that the IGP Intelligence Response Team attached to the state was alerted on the matter and they swung into action and while the wife of the deceased was on her way to deliver the ransom to the gang at a location they had asked her to drop the N300,000.
A member of the gang who came to collect the ransom was arrested and he led detectives to their hideout at Ntighauzo where they dumped the corpse of the businessman in a forest.
It was gathered that the Toyota Lexus 330 jeep belonging to the deceased which the gang used to drive the victim to their hideout was yet to be recovered. Recovered from the gang are; one English Pump Action and one locally made short-double barrel guns.
A Police source said; “From what we gathered, the suspects trailed the businessman using a commercial tricycle. They drove into his compound as he (the deceased) was entering his gate. They ordered him back to his jeep and drove away immediately through the Ngwa road axis. Immediately the information got to the police about the demand of the second ransom, we swung into action and asked the family to cooperate. It was while she was going to drop the second round of ransom of about N300, 000, after she had paid them N700, 000 that we arrested some members of the gang. They took us to their camp in a forest at Ntighauzor in Obingwa LGA where they dumped the man’s body.”
The kidnappers were said to have confessed during interrogation that late Daniel was killed by one of them who was asked to guard him when they went to collect the initial N700, 000 ransom.
“When he was asked, he said that the late businessman fought him and bite his finger which made him shoot him.”
