“Why I Kidnapped my Boss’ 8 Year Old Son” – Apprentice Makes Shocking Confession
An apprentice, Chimobi Sylvester, confessed to the police in Lagos on Monday how he abducted his master’s eight-year-old son because of his refusal to settle him after working for him for four years.
According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the 23-year-old suspect made the shocking confession after he was arrested and paraded at the command headquarters, Ikeja alongside his accomplice, 20-year-old Emmanuel Blessing.
”I started staying with my Oga in 2013. He took me from my parents to stay with him so that I could learn how to sell clothes. In the agreement he had with my parents before he took me, he promised to set me up after four years. In 2016, he was supposed to help me start my own business; but instead, he opened another shop and asked me to be paying him N20,000 monthly.
I could not cope because of the recession in the country, so I asked him to pay me as agreed, but he refused. Rather, he sent me back to the village. I came back early January and I stayed in a hotel. It was there that the idea of kidnapping his son came to me.
Last week Monday, around 7am, I laid in ambush along the route where his son normally passed to school in the Alafia area of Orile. The boy emerged around 7.45am. He came to me when I called him and I took him away,” the suspect said.
The suspect further explained that he kept the young boy in his hotel room for four days, until he was arrested on Apapa Road.
”Throughout the four days, the boy stayed with me in my hotel room at Oyingbo. I called my Oga on the telephone the next day to pay N5m into my account if he hoped to see his son again. I sent him my account number. I was on my way to collect my ATM card from the bank on Apapa Road when I was arrested. I never knew that the police were on my trail,” he added.
The Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who paraded the suspects, urged businessmen who bring young boys to work or learn a trade to always fulfill their part of the bargain.
He, however, said the suspects would be charged to court after completion of investigation into the matter, adding that the boy had since been reunited with his family.
Photo credit: NAN
Look at the trauma they put the little boy through for something that is not his fault.
The foolish Oga should have told him or explained his reason for not settling him than just take him back. He is a dubious man and he got what he deserved
Too many evil people out there.
hmmmmnn