Wife, others plot hubby’s kidnap for ransom

The police in Ogun State have arrested a housewife, Memunat Salaudeen, for conniving with three others to kidnap her husband and demand ransom. The Memunat and her accomplices were apprehended on Monday on the Papa-Itori road by a Federal Highway Patrol team which was on a stop-and-search duty. The state’s police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told […]

The police in Ogun State have arrested a housewife, Memunat Salaudeen, for conniving with three others to kidnap her husband and demand ransom.

The Memunat and her accomplices were apprehended on Monday on the Papa-Itori road by a Federal Highway Patrol team which was on a stop-and-search duty.

The state’s police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told newsmen on Tuesday that

The police team stopped three young men, Olayinka Lawal, Asungba Nura and Usman Oluwatoyin, on a motorcycle for searching and that a cutlass and a rope were discovered on them.

Oyeyemi said, “The three of them gave different answers to a question they were asked; this aroused the suspicion of the policemen who interrogated them further.

“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 N8,000 to buy the cutlass and ‘a rope strong enough to tie a human being’.

“They confessed further that Memunat who is a nurse in their area, Balogun Tuntun Gasline, Ifo, asked them to go and hide somewhere along the road, and that she would lure her husband to the place where they should kidnap him and tie him with the rope and then ask for ransom.”

The police spokesman said Memunat has since admitted to being the brain behind the kidnapping plot.

He further said, “She told the police 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.”