How children stage-manage kidnappings to defraud their parents — Delta CP on August 21, 2013 at 1:15 am in News
How children stage-manage kidnappings
to defraud their parents — Delta CP
on August 21, 2013 at 1:15 am in News
BY EMMA AMAIZE
ASABA — COMMISSIONER of Police, Delta
State, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, has said there
was a new trend in kidnapping in the state,
in which children conspire with kidnap
syndicates to demand and collect ransom
from their parents.
Speaking to Vanguard in an interview, he
said from the series of kidnap cases
investigated by the police, the emerging
pattern showed involvement of insiders.
Aduba, who described the development as
shocking, said: “Brothers now plot and
kidnap brothers in the state to extort money
from their parents, while children set up
their parents for kidnappers.”
He, however, said “there is no state that it is
crime free. It is not where you have one or
two crimes, you generalize it that there is
crime everywhere. We have a very strong
anti-crime mechanism in the state. Twenty
four hours, our men on always on the
street.”
According to him, “recently in the state, a
kidnapped victim in Warri and all of them
who kidnapped him, including an
undergraduate, were found to be children
of same parents. They stage-managed the
kidnap to defraud their own father.
“When we told their father that there was
an insider’s factor, he did not believe. It
involved the entire family. He thought we
were joking, but three of his sons were
involved. Even the one kidnapped was part
of the game. The man broke down when
the facts unfolded before him.
“There was also a particular case in which a
boy wanted to dupe his father of N30
million that he had been kidnapped. At the
end of the day, we retrieved the boy in a
native doctor’s place.”
Aduba said police were not magicians and
needed information from members of the
public.
He said:“We follow up, but when the people
chicken out, what do you expect the police
to do? The one in Issele-Uku, we were
following up, all of sudden, the family
chickened out.”
source: vanguard
to defraud their parents — Delta CP
on August 21, 2013 at 1:15 am in News
BY EMMA AMAIZE
ASABA — COMMISSIONER of Police, Delta
State, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, has said there
was a new trend in kidnapping in the state,
in which children conspire with kidnap
syndicates to demand and collect ransom
from their parents.
Speaking to Vanguard in an interview, he
said from the series of kidnap cases
investigated by the police, the emerging
pattern showed involvement of insiders.
Aduba, who described the development as
shocking, said: “Brothers now plot and
kidnap brothers in the state to extort money
from their parents, while children set up
their parents for kidnappers.”
He, however, said “there is no state that it is
crime free. It is not where you have one or
two crimes, you generalize it that there is
crime everywhere. We have a very strong
anti-crime mechanism in the state. Twenty
four hours, our men on always on the
street.”
According to him, “recently in the state, a
kidnapped victim in Warri and all of them
who kidnapped him, including an
undergraduate, were found to be children
of same parents. They stage-managed the
kidnap to defraud their own father.
“When we told their father that there was
an insider’s factor, he did not believe. It
involved the entire family. He thought we
were joking, but three of his sons were
involved. Even the one kidnapped was part
of the game. The man broke down when
the facts unfolded before him.
“There was also a particular case in which a
boy wanted to dupe his father of N30
million that he had been kidnapped. At the
end of the day, we retrieved the boy in a
native doctor’s place.”
Aduba said police were not magicians and
needed information from members of the
public.
He said:“We follow up, but when the people
chicken out, what do you expect the police
to do? The one in Issele-Uku, we were
following up, all of sudden, the family
chickened out.”
source: vanguard
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