Ogun State Police Command have arrested a housewife, Memunat Salaudeen for hiring kidnappers to abduct her husband.

Salaudeen and her accomplices; Olayinka Lawal, Asungba Nura and Usman Oluwatoyin, were arrested on Monday, November 1.

According to the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, the hired men were nabbed at about 6:30 pm along Papa/Itori road by men of the Federal highway patrol team who were on stop-and-search duty.

The trio were on a motorcycle when they were stopped as they looked suspicious. A cutlass and a new rope was found on them when they were searched. The officers separated and questioned them but all of them gave contradictory explanations.

On further inquiry, they confessed to be on a kidnap mission, indicting the housewife whom they claimed gave them 8,000 to purchase the cutlass and rope for the kidnap of her husband.

“The team 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, this further aroused the suspicion of the policemen, who then decided to interrogate them more”.

“They confessed further that, the woman who is a nurse in their area at Balogun Tuntun Gas line Ifo, asked them to go and hid somewhere along that road, and that she will lure her husband to the place where they will kidnap him and tie him with the rope and then ask for ransom.

“They further informed the police that, the woman told them that was the only way she could get money from her husband who she accused of being very stingy.

“It was the place they were going according to their plan before they were intercepted by the police,”

“She told the policemen that her husband has not been giving her money and that she decided to plan his kidnap in order to get money from him at all cost” Oyeyemi explained.

The Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Lanre Bankole has ordered the transfer of the case to the anti-kidnapping unit for investigation.