The police have arrested a woman, Oluchi Alozie, who confessed that her husband used her to seduce and lure men to be kidnapped.
According to her, she lured the men to a lonely “love nest” where her husband and his gang members would kidnap them at gunpoint.
Speaking while being paraded, she said her husband, Onyekachi Alozie, used her to lure Chief Okoli Precious to their residence at Nkume in Njaba LGA and later took him to a lonely place where the husband and his gang members kidnapped him to an unknown destination.
Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Hussaini, said the suspect was arrested following a report of a kidnap incident in Orlu on December 8 at about 3.30 pm that Chief Okoli Precious (75) had been murdered by his abductors.
He said the suspect’s arrest followed “a kidnap incident in Orlu on 8/12/2021 at about 1530hrs of one Chief Okoli precious ‘M’ aged 75yrs, reported on 12/11/2021, by his son, one Fabian Ubochi, where it was suspected that he had been murdered by his abductors.”
Hussaini said the command’s anti-kidnapping unit tracked and arrested one Agubata Maxwel Joel Chimezie.
The victim’s vehicle was recovered from Chimezie at where he allegedly took it to change the colour.
“On interrogation, he made a confessional statement revealing how they kidnapped the victim and led the police detectives to the house of his accomplice.
