Suspected Kidnappers Of Iweala’s Mom Paraded!

Paraded suspects

The Lagos State Police Command Monday paraded suspected kidnappers of the mother of the Coordinating Minister and Minister of Finance, Mrs Ngozi  Okonjo-Iweala, in Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
 

 


The suspects kidnapped  Professor Kamene Okonjo,from the palace of the traditional ruler of Ogwashi-Uku in Delta State on the 9th of December 2012.

The eight suspects paraded Monday in Lagos are Ejiofor Ogbue a.k.a. Marvelous, 22, Michael Ojeabulu, 23, Endurance Oke, 22, Ibrahim Abubakar, 28, Buhari Amadora, 27, Hassan Oseni, 29, Chiejine Onochie, 32, and Chukwuma Okoh, 31.

Some of the suspects were arrested in Port Harcourt on 2 April, 2013 following the arrest of  their suspected gang leader, Ejiofor Marvelous, and Okoh on 27 March, 2013 at about 1000hrs by men of the State Investigation Burea, SID, in the Lagos Police Command.

leader of the gang: Ejiofor Ogbue

In their alleged confessions to the police, the suspects said they kidnapped Prof Okonjo in December 2012 in Delta state and that they had been involved in other kidnappings.

Suprintendent of Police, SP Abba Kiyari had directed his men to go after the suspects, especially Marvelous, the leader of the gang and in the process five members of the gang were also arrested at different locations in Edo, Enugu, Delta and Anambra.

They also claimed that they collected N13 million ransom after they kidnapped the minister’s mother and that they had been involved other kidnappings, including the recent one which involved an elderly woman called Mrs Regina Obi Johnson, who was killed after they collected N2 million ransom, before they were arrested.

Professor Okonjo was believed to be in her late 70s when she was taken from her family home in Ogbe-Ofu, Ogwashi-Ukwu, Delta North Senatorial District.

Her husband, Professor Chukwuka Okonjo, the traditional ruler (Obi) of Ogwashi-Ukwu was said to be away in Abuja when the gunmen struck.

According to account given by Marvelous the leader of the gang
Reports given by Ejorfor Ogbue the leader of the gang, " Professor Kamene Okonjo was told that the president had summond her to Abuja, following her daughters involvement in a fraud case". This was made easy from information earlier supplied them by an insider, Chiejine Onochie whop worked at the palace for many years, he it was gathered told the gang when and how to get into the palace compound, and what time Pprofessor Okonjo is likely to be available. 

Chiejine Onochie

Marvelous told Sunday Vanguard, last week, that the gang’s modus operandi after kidnapping relatives of wealthy people was to use the victims to extort. The alleged gang leader narrated: “In cases where the victims  relatives refused  to cooperate, Peter, a gang member yet to be arrested, would either kill or harm them. He told me that he was doing that in retaliation for the police killing of his brother who, he said, was an innocent man. I  tried stopping him but he would  not listen. He is highly temperamental; everyone in the gang avoids him. He was the one who shot and killed a 72-year-old woman when her rich son refused to pay us the balance of N8million ransom  we demanded.

a member of the gang