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| Late Odidi Nweze |
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| The Suspects |
The Police in Lagos yesterday, paraded suspected killers of a Lagos businessman,
Mr. Odidi Nweze who was killed recently in Lagos. The suspects, eight of them, including a woman, were behind series of kidnap incidents both in Lagos and the neighboring states. They use an uncompleted building located somewhere in
Okota, Lagos, as their hideout and were in the habit of trailing their
victim(s) to an obscure place, abduct, blindfold and drive them to their
hideout in Okota from where they demand for ransom. The ring leader, Kelvin Emenike 31, who lives in Port Harcourt but comes to Lagos when there is 'business was lured to Lagos and arressted by the police who pretended to have 'business' for him.
When asked why they killed Odidi Nweze, leader of the gang, Klevin Emenike said, the death of
their victim was purely in self defence. He said: “Actually we did not
mean to kill him, all we were doing was to make money. Although the
parents later paid N1.2m out of the money we demanded, but we killed him
even before they paid the money. What happened was that when he was
kidnapped at Satellite, as we were going to Okota he attempted to disarm
one of us so I grabbed the gun and fired him pointblank. He later bled
to death because we could not take him to the hospital.”
I'm glad this heartless criminals have been caught. Let them rot in jail.
