Man kidnaps his landlady to offset rent

The Police have arrested one Ifeanyi Ezechukwu for allegedly kidnapping his landlady and her son to obtain ransom and pay his overdue rent.

Also paraded with him was one Chinedu Amadi over the alleged crime.

The two were paraded alongside six other suspects arrested by Operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Monitoring Unit for various crimes, which include armed robbery and kidnapping.

The spokesman of the Nigerian Police Force, CSP Jimooh Moshood, said Ifeanyi Ezechukwu and Chinedu Amadi were arrested in a raid carried out in Umuanwa community Ikwerre LGA in Rivers state.

He explained that they were picked for kidnapping Ezechukwu’s landlady and her son, who were promptly rescued by the police.

Fielding questions from journalists, Ezechukwu admitted conspiring with his friends to kidnap his landlady to enable him pay his rent of N70,000.

Ezechukwu said he was unable to pay the rent which made him to approach his friends, who helped in kidnapping the land lady and her son.

The police said they were arrested after a ransom of N200,000 was paid.

The Police also paraded two other suspects over kidnapping of a student of Federal University of Technology Owerri, Imo state.

Moshood said the suspects Micheal Obi and Kelechi Ndukwu were arrested and the victim rescued from their hide out, after they lured her through an internet homosexual love scam.

Responding to questions, Obi told journalists that they pretend to be lesbian on the internet to lure unsuspecting lesbians interested in a relation to meet them. He said they threaten their victims that they would expose them to their families before calling their parents for ransom.

He said locally made hand guns and ammunition were recovered from them.