The Nigerian police have arrested a 34-year-old man named Nnamdi Ethelbert Ogidi, for kidnapping and raping old women in Imo State.
The police nabbed the suspect on May 23, while negotiating a N20 million ransom for a victim, 74-year-old Regina Nkwocha. The police were unable to arrest other members of the gang as they ran away.
The suspect, popularly known as Bori, reportedly told the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the state police command, that his gang had kidnapped many persons, including 15 old women.
According to The Sun; “I am from Imo state and after dropping out of senior secondary school, I learnt how to become a mechanic.
Along the line I met bad friends who initiated me into the deadly cult group known as Debam fraternity. Most of them were into one bad thing or the other, so it was easy for me to join a gang of kidnappers who are also members of the cult.
We derive pleasure in kidnapping elderly women and while their family members will be running around for ransom, we will take turns to rape the women.
Our hideout is at Egbema LGA. I know that we have made a lot of money from kidnapping but because of the trauma that those women who are old enough to be my mother went through, I am sincerely sorry.
I still hope that the police will arrest the others because I cannot face the consequence of our action alone.”
