Man Kidnaps 92-Year-Old Uncle | Demands N200 Million Ransom

A man identified as Collins Chime has been arrested alongside other suspects over the kidnap of his 92-year old uncle, Chief Edwin Chime.

Armed with 3 locally made guns, the kidnappers had stormed the country home of the Liverpool-based victim at Obinagu Town in the Udi area of Enugu State on April 2nd and abducted him.

According to Vanguard, twenty-four hours after his abduction, they contacted his wife and demanded a N200 million ransom. The amount was subsequently reduced to N500, 000 and the old man was released 48 hours after it was paid.

Chime has now claimed his uncle’s refusal to give him money to start a business lead him to commit the crime. He said,

My uncle is based in Liverpool, United Kingdom. He came home in December for the holidays and I approached him and told him that I needed money to start a small business. He gave me N5,000 to go back to Lagos and join my cousins who are hustling there. I took the money but I wasn’t happy with what he told me because I wanted to go the university and I needed a small business to support myself while in school but my uncle didn’t reason with me.

Last month I was at Four Conner in Enugu to see one of my friends known as Coutonu, but while I met him, one of his friends, Chinonso showed up and while we discussed he told me that he was into kidnapping and he would like to recruit me if I could get him people to kidnap for ransom. Because of the money I was looking for I accepted his offer and told him that there was a woman in my town in Udi, known as Odele, whose children were very rich and my Uncle who just returned from the Uk.

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Chinonso told me not to worry that he was going to take care of the business. Four days after our first meeting, Chinonso met me in Udi and he came along with Chukwudi and one Ifeanyi. They also brought an Audi car. I don’t know how they got the car. We proceeded first to Odele’s house and we didn’t find the woman in the house, from there we went to my Uncle’s house and we abducted him. He was taken to Chinonso village in Obiagu Town in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State. I didn’t go with them the first day, but I joined them later the next day. I was the one who fed my uncle but I was putting on a mask so he could not see my face. We treated him fine. We also bought him his drugs.

I feel very bad, getting myself into this. I wish my uncle would forgive me.

He added that he was given N50,000 as his share when the ransom was paid.