Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have
arrested two brothers for kidnapping their boss' three-year-old son from Lagos
to Abia State as well as rescued the boy unharmed after 11 days in captivity.
The suspects, Meshack Felix, 25, and Chinecherem
Felix, 23, were said to have been involved in the kidnapping of Meshack's boss'
son from her restaurant in Lagos on June 4, 2018.
According to the Lagos State Commissioner of
Police, Imohimi Edgal, on June 4 2018, the police command received a complaint
from Mrs. Mary Chidi of Dog Kennel, Railway Compound, Ebute-Meta, Lagos.
“Mary Chidi said she suspected that Meshack, who
worked as waiter in her restaurant, allegedly abducted her three-year-old son,
Chisom Chidi, and took him to an unknown destination,” he said.
The CP expressed further that two days after the
disappearance of the child, the said Meshack sent a text message to her
containing a Diamond Bank account number 0081873532 belonging to one
Chinecherem Felix demanding a ransom fee of N600,000 else the victim would be
killed.
Continuing, Edgal said: “Based on the complaint, I
directed the officer-in-charge of Anti-kidnapping Squad to investigate and
ensure that the victim is rescued and suspects arrested.”
Following his order, he said the squad went into
action immediately and covertly located the suspects at Lokpanta Autonomous
Community of Umu-Nneochi council area in Abia State, where the two suspects
were arrested and the hostage rescued from captivity on June 15, 2018.
The suspects, Meshack
confessed to the crime, saying: “I kidnapped and took the child to Abia State.
I needed that ransom to start my own business as a welder.
“I was working as a waiter in his mother’s
restaurant before I kidnapped him. She was paying me N800 daily. But when the
father called me, he said he didn’t have N600, 000. So, I told him to send
N300, 000.”
The WAEC holder Meshack added that when the boy’s
father called that he had N100, 000 only but would rally for more, he accepted,
adding: “I told him to send whatever he had.”
Meanwhile, the younger brother of the alleged
kidnapper, Chinecherem, told journalists that he had no idea of his brother’s
crime. “When I saw the little boy in our house in Abia State, I asked my
brother who he was, and he said the boy is his son.
“He told me to give him my account number. But he
didn’t tell me what he wanted to do with it. I am a fashion designer in Abia
State,” he added
The suspects will be charged to court as soon as the
investigation is concluded.
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