How Kidnappers Make Millions Every Week: Hear Testimony Of Kidnappers: The Latest On The Demolition Of Kidnappers Houses By Operation Mkpuchepu

                         

Three houses belonging to dreaded kidnappers in Anambra State, including a N17 million bungalow, were yesterday demolished at Aguleri in Anambra East local government area under the supervision of the joint task force set up by Governor Willie Obiano to fight crime in the state.

The buildings were destroyed in two villages of Aguleri , Ezi-Agulu Aguleri and Agu Owerri Enugu Aguleri, Anambra East. Three leaders of the kidnap gang contributed money to build the houses to serve as a depot for their victims.

The state commissioner of police, Mr. Usman Gwary led the commanders of the army and the navy during the operation that lasted several hours. Gwary said they decided to demolish the houses as directed by Governor Willie Obiano, who has shown zero tolerance to crime.

A leader of the gang, Mr. Ogochukwu Ngwueche (aka Nwa Jesus) from Oghe in Enugu State, who has been providing security operatives with information on kidnapping activities in Anambra State since his arrest, told reporters at Aguleri that himself, Onyeka and Chigozie, (aka 30) from Ogidi in Anambra State decided to build the six- bedroom N17 million house with proceeds from various kidnappings to serve as depot for their human cargo (victims) when former Governor Peter Obi decided to be demolishing houses of kidnappers in the state.

The house, he said, was built by a contractor and member of the gang whose name he gave as Winer and who is still at large.
“We decided that it was a big risk to build houses in our compounds and that was why we bought land and built the houses sorely for keeping our victims,” he said.
He said that among high profile victims that were kept in the N17 million house at various times while negotiation for their release lasted included a foreigner whose company paid N165 million, a sister to the managing director of Orange Drugs whose family paid N50 million, a younger brother of Chief G.U.O. Okeke, chairman of GUO Group whose family paid N35 million and another top businessman whose family paid N45 million.
Ngwueche, who had in the past, travelled to Malaysia and served a one –year jail term at Awka Prison in 2011 said further that he went into full time kidnapping because of the easy money in the business.
According to him, he was earlier an armed robbery before discovering that it paid better to kidnap and demand for ransom.
There is also a shrine in the compound which, he said, sacrifices of goats and even human beings were made to ensure their safety during operations.
One unique feature of all the buildings demolished yesterday was that they were all located in remote area of the town.
Also yesterday, the police paraded 17 suspects and various types of ammunition they use in tormenting people.
Police public relations officer of the Anambra State police command, Mr. Emeka Chukwuemeka said during the parade that two of the suspects specialized in sending false alert to people that money had been paid into their accounts, while two others recently kidnapped a woman at Nnobi in Idemili South local government area of the state.
Two others, he said, belong to the gang that usually blocks the Enugu Agidi road along the Enugu –Onitsha expressway to rob people on the highway, while the rest had participated in various kidnap and armed robbery operations.
Chukwuemeka said: “The synergy between the Anambra State government and security operatives has really started yielding fruits and the joint task force will not relent until this state is rid of criminals

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In what looked like a commando operation, the Anambra State by the Joint Task Force (JTF), yesterday, demolished three buildings belonging to suspected kidnappers in Aguleri, Governor Willie Obiano’s community. Residents of the community were in jubilant mood, hailing Obiano and his (JTF) team, comprising the police, the Army, Navy and the Federal Road Safely Commission (FRSC). The operation was led by the Anambra State Police Commissioner, Usman Gwary; the Army Commander, incharge of 302 regiment Onitsha, Col Auwal Fagge and Navy Capt. M.G. Oamen, Commander, Navy, Onitsha Also on hand to witness the demolition were the Governor’s Special Adviser on Security, Hon. Chikodi Anarah and the Senior Special Adviser on Media, James Eze. The suspected kidnappers, Ogochukwu Ngwueche (aka-Nwa Jesus), Onyeka and Chigozie, were allegedly involved in the kidnap of the brother to the owner of Orange Drugs Limited, in which a ransom of 50 million naira was paid. The suspects also confessed to have kidnapped the brothers of Mic-Merah group of companies and Chief Goody Okeke (GUO), from which they collected ransom of over 80 million naira. Ngwueche, while speaking to reporters yesterday, said the gang’s first ransom of N165 million was collected in 2011 after the kidnap of Whiteman. Other members of the gang, according to the suspect, include Wyna, Onyeka and Chigozie, all of who are on the run. Briefing reporters after the exercise, the state Police Public relations Officer Emeka Chukwuemeka said the 17 persons arrested by the police during the week were dare-devil robbers and kidnappers. Two of the suspects were arrested at Okpoko near Onitsha, while another person who arranged the kidnap of his sister and her son at Nnobi was also arrested. Chukwuemeka described the arrest of the suspects as a result of the synergy between the state government and the security agencies in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Usman Gwary, said the police authorities have made a decision to destroy any building found to belong to any kidnap suspect in the state. According to him, “we will not be distracted by somebody who does not see any good in the good work happening in the state between the governor and the security agencies.” A victim of the suspects, Chief Jerome Nnechi, told The Nation that Aguleri, the governor’s home community was being seen as the den of kidnappers by many