A Benin resident, Michael Duda, has said that he kidnapped his teenage girlfriend identified as Victory Aseguah with the intention of raising money for their wedding.
He stated this on Thursday when he was paraded alongside 104 suspects arrested for various crimes ranging from kidnapping, rape, armed robbery to cultism at the headquarters of the Edo Police Command in Benin, the Edo State capital.
Michael said the girlfriend just finished secondary school and there was no way he could approached the parents that he wanted to marry their daughter.
Speaking to journalists, Micheal said he kept the girl in his house for four days and asked her father to pay him the sum of N2m.
The man who said he sells dispensable cups admitted that he had sex with the girl all through the four days the girl spent in his house.
“I live at Ekae community off Sapele road. She came to my house. We planned to collect money from her father to raise money for our marriage but I did not collect the money again. She stayed in my house for four days.
“I couldn’t tell the father I want to marry his daughter. She said her father would not support the idea because she was yet to go to the university. She was with me for four days. The man said he has no money to pay. I was at home with the girl when police came and arrested me,” he said.
But Victory who was present at the parade said they met on facebook and after several days, she decided to visit him.
Victory said she was surprised that the boy kidnapped her when she got there and heard that the boy demanded for N4m from her father.
Rodha, the elder sister of Victory, said her sister was sexually abused before the police rescued her.
On the alleged plans to get married, she laughed saying, “My sister is 16 years old and has never slept outside before. She told me they met on Facebook and the boy professed love to her. When she went to the house, she said the boy hatched the plan and said he would collect N10,000 from our father but the boy demanded for N4m.
“He will lock her inside the house and called us threatening that he will kill her if we did not pay. He took advantage of my sister’s condition.
“She told me the boy is 21 and a student but she later saw that it was a lie. We took her for treatment after the rescue.”
He listed items recovered from other suspects within the past three weeks to include; five AK 47 rifles, military weapons. 33 cut to size guns, motor-cycles, 90 live AK 47 ammunition, 234 live cartridges, assorted vehicles and the sum of N1.2m.
The Police Commissioner in Edo, Babatunde Kokumo, said the suspects would soon be charged to court.
Post-mortems examinations have revealed the cause of death of the 26 teenage migrant girls found dead in the Mediterranean Sea.
The autopsy carried out in Salerno in southern Italy, revealed that 25 of the girls died of asphyxiation in the water while the remaining one suffered a wound to her liver.
It was earlier reported that the girls between the ages of 14-18 may have been sexually abused and murdered as they attempted to cross the sea.
Italian security operatives had arrested an Egyptian and a Libyan in connection to the deaths of the 26 Nigerian females.
But the results have revealed that 2 of the deceased were pregnant and none of the girls suffered physical or sexual violence.
The bodies of some of the victims have been identified by their families; and funeral services would hold for the deceased on Friday, November 17, in Salerno where a day of mourning has been declared. - Daily Post
Ogun State Police Command have arrested one Ehioboh Lucky for impersonating a billionaire businessman, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr.
While parading the suspect yesterday, the spokesman of Ogun State Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said Lucky was arrested on November 6, following a complaint by one Abiola Olalekan Ogunseye, who claimed the suspect defrauded him of N1,028,770.
The PRO said the suspect, who hails from Edo State, had opened a Facebook account with the name and picture of the business mogul, which he has been using to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.
“One of his victims, Abiola Olalekan Ogunseye, came into contact with him on Facebook where he promised to get employment for him at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and asked him to pay the sum of N1.5 million to ‘settle’ some members of the management of the corporation who will influence his appointment.
“The sum of N1,028,770 has so far been paid to the suspect before the victim realized that he was a fraudster.
“The victim lodged complain via a petition to the Ogun State Commissioner of Police and Officer in Charge of Anti Kidnapping and Cultism, CSP Opeyemi Kujore was directed to go after the suspect.
“After weeks of investigation, the suspect was apprehended on Monday 6th of November, 2017. Recovered from him are one iphone 6, a laptop, eight different SIM cards, five different ATM cards and one international passport,” Oyeyemi said.
However the Police boss said the suspect will be charged to court as soon as investigation was concluded.
An 88-year-old man, Gbeminiyi Adeyiga, on Thursday told an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos that his wife of 30 years sleeps with different men right in their home.
The man pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage over his wife’s alleged infidelity and lack of care.
Adeyiga resides at No. 3, Adeyiga St., off Munirat Aleje Street in Ikorodu.
He also told court that his wife was also threatening to kill him.
He said, “My wife does not take care of me any longer; she does not give me good food and different men come to sleep with her in our home.
“She frustrates me and she wants to kill me, I don’t want to die now, please separate us.”
The respondent, a 55-year-old woman named Sekinat, who is also a trader, denied the allegations made by her husband.
She said that she still loved her husband and would want the marriage to continue, while pleading with the court to deny her husband’s request.
She pleaded, “I beg the court to settle us. He has never caught me with a man. He always suspected my every move to the extent that he smells my pants whenever I go out and come back.
“I want this court to settle this matter I am not ready for divorce.”
In his verdict, the President of the court, Mrs Funmi Adeola, advised Sekinat to stop misbehaving and to take good care of her husband.
The case was adjourned till Nov. 30.
