Woman arrested for planning husband’s kidnapping: “I was starved of s*x” she says
On Friday, the Police Command in Akwa Ibom paraded Mrs. Joy Emmanuel, 40, who allegedly claimed to have orchestrated the kidnapping of her husband, Mr. Emmanuel Ebong, in retaliation for both depriving her of s*x and refusing to support the family.
Mr. Olatoye Durosinmi, the Commissioner of Police, revealed to reporters that Joy and the kidnappers received N2 million in ransom for the release of her husband.
According to Durosinmi, the state’s police leadership would do everything in its power to combat crime.
Speaking to newsmen, Joy said that circumstances forced her to plan the kidnap of Ebong, an indigene of Ntak Obio Akpa in Oruk Anam Local Government Area.
”I did menial jobs to fend for the family. I arranged his kidnapping because I needed money to take care of the family.
”Unfortunately I was not given the ransom money after the abduction was successful,” she said.
Joy mentioned one Udo Moji, now at large, as the leader of the gang she engaged in her husband’s abduction.
She said, ”They collected the money from me and never gave anything to me. Some members of the group who were arrested while spending the money mentioned my name to the police.”
Also speaking, Ebong said that he was kidnapped at about 8.30 p.m., on July 21 shortly after entering his house.
“They took me out of my compound in a minibus. They kept me for four days and demanded the sum of N2million as ransom.
“They took me to Etinan where they caged me. I am very fortunate that the police came on a rescue operation.
‘They collected N2million from me. The police later recovered about N500,000 from them,” he said.
