The suspect, Adeyinka Adebayo, who admitted to have connived with his 28-year-old girlfriend, Kehinde Alonge, said he committed the act to generate money from his church members.
He added that the supposed ransom was to meet up with his girlfriend's demand.
Parading the suspect alongside his girlfriend before journalists, the Director, Lagos State Command, DSS, Mr. Victor Achu, explained that Adebayo had on October 3 reported at the command that his son had been kidnapped.
Achu said: "The command swung into action. Preliminary investigations confirmed the kidnap of the boy by one Kehinde Alonge, who demanded a ransom of N350,000 for his release and directed that the money be paid into a UBA account.
"The account was later discovered to be owned by one Taiwo Faloye. After series of tactical planning, the owner of the account and Kehinde were arrested at Ilesha, Osun State, while trying to withdraw the money."
Drama
A mild drama, however, unfolded following an argument between Adebayo and his girlfriend over who brought up the kidnap plan.
While Adebayo claimed that Kehinde hatched the plan to get the N200,000 she needed to open a hairdressing saloon, the later interrupted, stating that "he is lying. I was in Ilesha when he called me to come to Lagos that some people owed him money.
"He said the only way to collect the money from them was for me to come and take his son away, while he pretends that he had been kidnapped.
"I came to Lagos on October 4. I intended going to the school to pick the boy, but Adebayo advised I picked him from the house.
"Since the children knew me, I told the boy to follow me to get something outside and entered the next available vehicle to Ilesha, Osun State. His father even gave me N3,000 for transport.
"When we got to Ilesha, he sent another N3,750 worth of recharge cards for his feeding. He even called his son on phone daily. He was the one that asked me to demand N350,000.
"However, at the end of the bargain, he said I should accept N200,000. Since I had no bank account, I asked one of my relatives to give me his account details. But we were arrested at the point of withdrawal."
'She needed money'
However, Adebayo, a father of two, said: "My girlfriend said she needed money to open her own hair dressing saloon. Since I was not financially buoyant, I decided to raise money by masterminding my son's kidnap.
"I am a vulcanizer and business had not been booming. Anyone I approached for money usually declined to assist me.
"To get money from my church members in particular, I had to mastermind my son's kidnap.
"He spent nine days at my girlfriend's house. At the end of the day, I was able to raise N450,000 from my church members and friends, who earlier refused to help me.
"I regret my action because my son may never forgive me if he is told. I feel ashamed also because his mother has been down with stroke, though we are no longer married.
"I beg to be forgiven. It was the handiwork of the devil."
The suspects, according to Ochu, would be charged to court. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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ReplyDeleteWhere are the yoruba pple, what a shame. How can a man kidnap his own son just to raise money for his girlfriend. Yoruba will neva seize to amuse me.
ReplyDeleteYoruba, Igbo or Hausa, we are still from Nigeria and we are one Nigeria. Let's us stop this indiscriminations and look for ways to solve problems, instead of condemning and creating more problems.
ReplyDeleteEvil of various sorts thrives in the land because there is no adequate saction (public punishment) meted on the evil doers. The judiciary system is very weak and not instant.
ReplyDeletePeople of this sort should be publicly punished so that other may learn.
So Yorubas are away that we are one Nigeria, no i thought is only Igbos that are using there mother for rituals, useless set of human beings
ReplyDeleteWe are talking of father kidaping son and You are talking out of context what Is d relationship between kidnapping and tribe? D immédiate problem Is about moral bankruptcy of a father who now expects d child to forgive him
ReplyDeletehis excesses . There are some things That no matter how bad the situation is a sane person should not even sit down to think of. Some pple are simply enemies of progress.
What are you guys saying? Of course, the so called Igbos taught the Yorubas how to do things like this. Check and confirm - how many of this type of attrocity will you get in Yoruba land? Very few and rare. I know what am saying. Over the years, statistics has revealed this. Take care guys.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous clown @ 12:17pm, if the Igbo indeed taught the Yoruba how to do things like this, then the Yoruba taught the Igbo, & indeed other Nigerians how to loot Govt Treasury. Remember an Assistant Director in a Federal Ministry that died in the Bellview crash, a Yoruba, with a Pastor prefix for that matter, that had N7billion Naira found in various accts. How about Tafa Balogun's N17billion, & numerous others. Yet you people are excoriating Stella Oduah. You people take the cake man, or woman! Condemn evil when you see it. It abounds in varying degrees in every tribe, instead of looking for stereotypes.
ReplyDeleteThank you my dear! All the tribalists are all off the page cos it mentioned a youruba man. Had it been different there could have been up to 100 comments here stereotyping!
ReplyDeleteIgbos taught the Yorubas this my foot - a thief and a liar is a thief and a liar, regardless of tribe. Only the myopic would make an excuse for bad behaviour for ANY tribe.
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