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| Uzordima Chukwudi, and some of his gang members |
Uzordima Chukwudi, 29, was a lotto
operator before he took to kidnapping, a trade he was into before he was
arrested by the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence
Response Team, led by CSP Abba Kyari.
Chukwudi was arrested alongside some
other members of the group, including Joseph Chiaotu, aka Ejima, 21,
Anozie Chinonso, 25 and 27-year-old Chukwuma Agim, who is a prison
official, in connection with the kidnap of a woman in Imo State.
Speaking to journalists during the week,
Chukwudi said he was studying.....
Mechanical Engineering at Federal
Polytechnic Nekede, Imo State before he dropped out in his final year.
“What led me into kidnapping was unfortunate,” he said.
He explained that the pressure to raise
the bride price of his pregnant girlfriend lured him into the crime. He
said, “My girlfriend is pregnant and I have been under pressure to pay
her bride price but I had no money. She told me that since she became
pregnant her mother had been ostracised by her fellow women in their
village. The pressure was too much that I needed to look for money by
all means.”
On how he came across the other
suspects, Chukwudi explained that when the pressure became unbearable,
he contacted two of his friends; Nnamdi, who is now in prison, and
Chiboy, who later introduced him to Agim for the trade.
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