We Got N6.8m Ransom for Appeal Court Judge’s Wife – Kidnap Gang
On Saturday, July 4, 2020, the wife of a Court of Appeal Judge, Ekwele Agube, was kidnapped by six armed men who accosted her along Ministry Road, off NPA junction in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, killing her aide, Glory Egbela, before whisking her away in their operation vehicle.
The victim, who spent 14 days at the kidnappers’ den was released after a ransom of N6.8million was paid.
But few weeks after her release, operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team, IRT, who were detailed to investigate and track down the kidnappers succeeded in arresting six members of the gang, identified as Nsense Bassy, Edet Ene, Christopher Effaeyo, Etim Offiong, Bassy Effiong and Luis Otu bassy. Two locally made guns and 15 live cartridges were recovered from them.
It was gathered that the victim’s husband, Justice Ignatius Agube, had contacted the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, informing him about the kidnap of his wife. The IGP was said to have deployed operatives of the IRT to track down the suspects.
It was gathered that the IRT made its breakthrough when it trailed one of the phone numbers used in negotiating the ransom to one of the gang leaders identified as Bassy alias Lion and during interrogation he confessed to the crime and led the operatives in arresting five other members including the gang’s informant, its cooks and boat boy.
In his confession, Bassy confessed that he had led members of his gang to kidnap a Cameroonian Diplomat and an Igbo businessman who both paid N2million each before they were released.
The 30-year-old suspect, from Akam Local Government Area of Cross River State and married with four children, said he took to kidnapping because he had no means of feeding his children during the COVID-19 lockdown.
He said; “I am a primary school dropout, my father had no job and my mother left him and I was left on street of Calabar to fend for myself.
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