A 40-year-old woman, Mrs Joy Emmanuel Sunday, has confessed to arranging her husband’s kidnap for allegedly starving her of sex and denying her money.

The woman, who has been arrested by the police for conspiracy over the kidnap of her husband, was among 29 others paraded for various offences, including kidnapping, robbery and child theft, by the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Olatoye Durosinmi.

It was gathered that the kidnappers demanded N10 million as ransom and later reduced it to N2 million; a sum that was paid before the police arrested them at the point of sharing.

She said she engaged in all sorts of menial jobs to fend for herself and the children since her husband abandoned her and got married to another woman.

She added that when one of her children finished secondary education, there was no money to send him for further studies.

She said: “I arranged for my husband’s kidnapping because for a long time, he had abandoned me with his children.

Even when my father and mother-in-laws were alive, he abandoned me. He never cared for his children. I engaged in menial jobs such as weeding people’s farms to feed his children and pay their school fees.

“One of the children finished from secondary school and I approached my husband to plan how to send the son to learn trade since the father refused to send him to the university, but my husband shunned me.

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“The major reason I arranged for his kidnapping is that my husband refused to have sex with me and does not take care of me and the children.”

She disclosed that she never collected her share of the money before they were arrested by the police

“The kidnapper that collected the ransom of N2 million never gave me my share and I didn’t even see the money.

“It was when the kidnappers were sharing the N2 million that the police arrested them and they mentioned me. They never gave me any part of the ransom collected from my husband.

“The kidnap kingpin (now at large), Udo Moji, assured me that he would collect the money from my husband for me since my husband attacked me and poured away the soup in the pot.

“So, I agreed with him and he kidnapped my husband. I ran around to gather money to pay the kidnappers. The main suspect, Udo Moji, ran away.

Narrating his ordeal, the husband of the suspect, Mr, Emmanuel Sampson Ebong, a native of Ntak Obio Akpa in Oruk Anam Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, said: “I was kidnapped on July 21, 2022 in my compound.

“Around 8.30 pm, I saw about six people in my compound. They struggled with me and released two gunshots into the air, and I struggled with them before they took me out of my compound in a mini bus and drove away.

“They kept me from that Thursday till Sunday and demanded N10 million from me and later reduced it to N2 million before the police came on that day. If not God, they would have killed me.

“They took me to Etinan where they caged me. I thank the Nigeria Police for the rescue operation. I also thank my village head.

“I don’t know the reason they kidnapped me. They collected N2 million from me. The police later recovered over N500,000 from them.

The Commissioner of Police, Olatoye Durosinmi, while parading the suspects, vowed that his command would not leave any stone unturned to ensure that residents of the state sleep with their eyes closed.