Man kidnaps self in Enugu, demands N2million ransom from brothers

The police in Enugu State have arrested one
Samuel Ani after he allegedly "kidnapped himself"
and demanded N2 million ransom from his
brothers.
Samuel, DailyPost gathered, saw his own kidnap
as the quickest way of getting financial assistance
from his brothers, who he labeled "stingy fellows".
However, it has ended up badly for the coffin
dealer, an indigene of Ugwuaji, Enugu South Local
Government Area.
It was gathered that he faked kidnap and hid
himself for six days at a bush behind his shop
situated at Gariki axis of Awkunanaw also in
Enugu South, from where he was making
telephone calls to his two younger brothers in a
very convincing tone that he had been abducted
and that the sum of N2 million was required to
get him out of the purported kidnappers den, else
he would be killed.
The spokesman of the police in Enugu State,
Ebere Amaraizu, DSP, who confirmed the incident
disclosed that the case was reported to the State
Police Command, which mobilized its anti-
kidnapping unit.
According to him, "when Samuel intensified his
call that the purported kidnappers were on the
verge of killing him if his people cannot bring the
money, which was later reduced to N1.2m, some
amount of money was sent across to the account
number provided by the purported kidnappers
and a certain girl who went to cash the sum of
initial N100, 000 sent into the account in one of
the new generation banks located around Agbani
road axis on 29/8/13, was tracked and picked by
the operatives.
"The girl was identified as one Oluchi Ogbu Faith
from Akpugo in Nkanu West Local Government
Area of the state and a fiancee to Samuel.
"On closer interrogations, Oluchi revealed that the
account belonged to her but that she was
instructed by Samuel to supply the account
number so that his brothers could pay the
ransom via the account and that she was to cash
it as soon as she received alert of the payment
and bring it to him.
"Her revelation led to the arrest of Samuel who
disclosed that he was not kidnapped but that he
kidnapped himself so that his wealthy younger
brothers can pay money for ransom which he will
use to sort out his business dealings".
Samuel also reportedly told the police that
without the "faked kidnap", his brothers couldn't
have given him monetary assistance.
"He also revealed that he is a father of five
children but never revealed to Oluchi Faith Ogbu
that he is married; instead he promised to marry
her.
"Asked whether he used to make huge sells in
coffin, he said he made low sells and that he
needed to trick the brothers to get out money
from them in order to address his immediate
challenges which required huge amount of
money", Amaraizu added.