‘My Uncle is Very Stingy’ – Nabbed Suspect Tells Why He Kidnapped 13-Year-Old Niece

Chima John, 37, who allegedly kidnapped his 13-year-old niece, Ijeoma, was on Tuesday paraded at the Oyo State Police Command. Speaking with newsmen, the suspect spilled that he kidnapped the poor girl to extort money from his uncle whom he described as stingy.

He said,

“I sent someone to my uncle’s shop to get some items and instructed the person to tell my niece to come to the car in which I was to get the money for the items.

On sighting me, I told her to come into the car and we forced her in.

I took the girl just to revenge for what my uncle did to us. He breached a contract and he is very stingy. We had a little quarrel in the past on trading business. I did it just to get money from him and I requested for N2.5 million.”

Reliving how she was abducted, Ijeoma said,

“On that fateful day, a boy came to our shop begging me to sell some items to him. He eventually bought five ‘congos’ (measures) of rice with a bottle of groundnut oil.

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When I got to the car, I saw my ‘brother’ (John) and he beckoned on me to enter the car. I refused to enter the car but I was forced into the car. I was taken to a bush and kept in one house and I was beaten. He thereafter called my daddy and demanded N2.5 million.”

She added that her uncle forced her to tell her dad over the phone that she was in danger and would be killed if the ransom was not paid.

John was apprehended on his way to retrieve the ransom.