Mrs Joy Sunday, a 40-year-old woman arrested by police in Akwa Ibom State for conspiracy of abduction of her husband, said on Friday that she participated in the act because her husband had denied her sex and money for too long.
According to Punch newspaper, the kidnappers demanded N10m in ransom and later reduced it to N2m, which was paid before the police arrested them while they were sharing the loot.
The suspect, who was among 29 others paraded by the state Commissioner of Police, Olatoye Durosinmi, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, for various offenses including kidnapping, robbery, and child theft, said she had been forced to work menial jobs to support herself and her children since her husband married another woman.
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She said, “I arranged my husband’s kidnapping because for a long time he abandoned me with his children. Even when my father and mother-in-law were alive he abandoned me. He never cared for his children. I did n menial jobs such as weeding people’s farms to feed my children and pay their school fees.
“One of the children completed secondary school and I approached my husband to plan how to send him to learn a trade since he refused to send him to university but his husband shunned me. The major reason I arranged his kidnap is that because he refused to have sex with me and does not take care of me and the children.”
She added that she never collected her share of the money before they were arrested by the police
