A housewife, Memunat Salaudeen, has been arrested by operatives of Ogun State Police Command for planning with three others to kidnap her husband.
She was arrested on Monday.
According to the spokesman of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspects were apprehended at about 6:30 pm along Papa/Itori road while men of Federal Highway patrol team, led by Inspector Sunday Imohiosen, were on stop and search duty.
The team, he said, accosted three young men – Olayinka Lawal, Asungba Nura and Usman Oluwatoyin – who looked highly suspicious, on a motorcycle and stopped them for search.
While searching them, a cutlass and a new strong rope was recovered from them.
The police team, it was said, quickly separated them and questioned them individually about their mission in that area with rope and cutlass.
The three of them gave different answers to the question, a situation that further aroused the suspicion of the policemen, who then decided to interrogate them more.
In the course of the interrogation, the three of them confessed that it was one woman who was later identified as Memunat Salaudeen that gave them the sum of N8000 to buy a cutlass and a rope strong enough to tie a human being.
They confessed further that the woman who is a nurse in their area at Balogun Tuntun, Gasline, Ifo, asked them to go and hide somewhere along that road, and that she would lure her husband to the place where they would kidnap him and tie him with the rope and then ask for ransom.
They further informed the police that the woman told them that that was the only way she could get money from her husband who she accused of being very stingy despite the fact that he had money .
It was the place they were going, according to their plan, before they were intercepted by the police.
The woman was subsequently brought to the scene, and on seeing the arrested suspects, she admitted being the brain behind the whole thing.
The housewife told the policemen that her husband had not been giving her money and that she decided to plan his kidnap in order to get money from him at all costs.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to anti-kidnapping unit of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation.
