A housewife identified as Memunat Salaudeen was on Monday arrested for allegedly hiring three men to kidnap her husband in Ogun State.
According to Punch, the housewife hired the accomplices, Olayinka Lawal, Asungba Nura and Usman Oluwatoyin to kidnap her husband who she tagged as “Stingy” and take a ransom from him.
However, she met her waterloo when the police caught the suspects during a stop and search on the Papa-Itori Road and arrested them.
Speaking about the sad incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi revealed that the suspects were arrested around 6.30 pm by a Federal Highway Patrol team, which was led by Inspector Sunday Imohiosen.
According to him, the police team caught the men, who looked suspicious while on a motorcycle.
“While searching them, a cutlass and a new strong rope were recovered from them.
“The team quickly separated them and questioned them individually about their mission in that area with a rope and a cutlass.
“The three of them gave different answers to the question. This further aroused the suspicion of the policemen, who then decided to interrogate them more.
“In the course of interrogation, the three of them confessed that it was a woman who was later identified as Memunat Salaudeen that gave them the sum of N8,000 to buy a cutlass and a rope strong enough to tie a human being.
“They confessed further that the woman, who is a nurse in their area at Balogun Tuntun Gasline, Ifo, asked them to go and hide somewhere along that road, and that she would lure her husband to the place where they would kidnap him and tie him with the rope and then ask for ransom.
“They further informed the police that the woman told them that that was the only way she could get money from her husband whom she accused of being very stingy despite having money.
“It was the place they were going to according to their plan when they were intercepted by the police.
“The woman was subsequently brought to the scene, and on seeing the arrested suspects, she admitted to being the brains behind the whole thing.
“She told the policemen that her husband had not been giving her money and that she decided to plan his kidnap in order to get money from him at all cost.” Oyeyemi said.
In conclusion, the state Police Public Relations Officer said the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the anti-kidnapping unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.
The suspects will be arraigned to court once the investigation is over.
