September 02, (THEWILL) – A 40-year-old woman, Mrs Joy Emmanuel Sunday, who was arrested in connection with her husband’s kidnap, has confessed her crime, revealing that she was sex starved and left without money for long.
Joy was among 29 other suspects paraded for various offences at the Akwa Ibom State Police Command headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia, on Friday, for conspiracy over the kidnap of her husband, Mr Emmanuel Sampson.
It was gathered that the kidnappers demanded a N10 million ransom and later reduced it to N2 million, which was paid before the police arrested them at the point of sharing the loot.
Narrating what led to the crime she was arrested for, Joy said she has been subjected to doing all sorts of menial jobs to fend for herself and the children since her husband got married to another woman and abandoned her.
She said when one of her children graduated from secondary school, there was no money for him to further his studies.
“I arranged for my husband’s kidnap because, for a long time, he had abandoned me and the children. Even when my father and mother-in-law were alive he abandoned me. He never cared for his children. I engaged in menial jobs such as weeding on people’s farms to feed the children and pay their school fees.
“One of the children finished from secondary school and I approached my husband to plan how to send the son to learn trade since the father refused to send him to university, but my husband shunned me. The major reason I arranged for his kidnap is that my husband refused to have sex with me and does not take care of me and the children”, she concluded.
She disclosed that she never collected her share of the money before they were arrested by the police
“The kidnapper that collected the ransom of N2 million never gave my share and I didn’t even see the money. It was when the kidnappers were sharing the N2m that the police arrested them and they mentioned me. They never gave me any part of the ransom collected from my husband.
“The kidnap kingpin (now at large), Udo Moji, assured me that he would collect the money from my husband for me since my husband attacked me and poured away soup in the pot. So, I agreed with him and he kidnapped my husband. I ran around to gather money to pay the kidnappers. The main suspect, Udo Moji ran away”, she stated.
Narrating his ordeal, the husband of the suspect, Mr Emmanuel Sampson Ebong, who hails from Ntak Obio Akpa, in Oruk Anam local government area, Akwa Ibom State, said, “I was kidnapped on July 21, 2022, in my compound. I came back from treatment because I was weak. Around 8.30 pm, I saw about six people in my compound. They struggled with me and released two gunshots into the air, I struggled with them before they took me out of my compound in a minibus and drove away.
“They kept me from that Thursday till Sunday and demanded N10m from me and later reduced it to N2m before the police came that day, If not God, they would have killed me.
“They took me to Etinan, where they caged me. I thank the Nigeria Police for the rescue operations. I also thank my Village Head. I don’t know the reason they kidnapped me, they collected N2m from me. The police later recovered over N500,000 from them.”
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Olatoye Durosinmi, while parading the suspects, vowed that his command would not leave any stone unturned to ensure that residents of the State sleep with their eyes closed.
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