The State Security Service [SSS] last Thursday prevented the kidnap of two ministers of the Federal Republic by fraudsters and three University students.
The two ministers are, Education Minister, Dr. Sam Egwu and his counterpart from the Ministry of labour and Productivity, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode [SAN].
The State Security Service [SSS] said it had foiled an orchestrated plot by suspected fraudsters and three University students to kidnap the two serving Ministers.
The quadrant of kidnappers led by Abdallah Alfa [alias Ambassador], according to the Assistant Director, Public Relations of the Service, Marilyn Ogar had put final touches on the plot before they were nabbed.
Others arrested for the crime are Kingsley Njoku Obi [23], Aniabor Ochuko [27] and Chilaka Rowland [28], who are all students of the University of Abuja.Obi and Rowland are final year students of Political science, while Ochuko is a diploma student.
Disclosing this during a press briefing in Abuja, Ogar said if the fraudsters had succeeded with their plot, Egwu would have been killed while Kayode would have been released to the Federal Government at a ransom of N300 Million.
The spokesperson said the 58 year old Alfa, who masterminded the plot, recruited students “ostensibly to make the exercise and the subsequent demand appear as if it was geared towards the Federal Government and ASUU impasse.”
According to her, preliminary investigation showed that the plot was to forcefully end the seemingly unending strike action. “While three of these are students of the University of Abuja, preliminary investigation showed that the plan was designed to serve as a forceful way of ending the on-going strike action”, Ogar stated.
She also said upon the successful kidnapping of the Ministers, Egwu was “to be forced to sign an alleged agreement with ASUU.”
Ogar noted that “However, part of the plot was to eventually kill Egwu, the Minister of Education and release Kayode after the ransom would have been paid.”
She lamented that instead of an old man like Alfa serving a role model to the younger ones [students], “he cajoled them into embarking on the nefarious acts, thus capitalizing on their seeming frustrations and desperations to go back to school by all means.”
Describing the kingpin of the failed plot as “an incurable fraudster”, the Service Spokesperson advised parents and guardians to keep close watch on their children and wards to ensure that they do not engage in acts inimical to orderliness and security.
According to the SSS “the plan to kidnap the Ministers was discussed in his house in Abuja. He not only promised to sponsor the attempt, he initiated it. He recruited others and promised them the sum of N14 Million with an initial payment of N4 million. While he hails from Dekina, Kogi state, he claims to be Hausa from Kano.”
She said the essence of the press briefing was to draw the attention of parents to the possibility that Alfa may have recruited other kids in different parts of the country for such criminal acts and to implore them to be vigilant.
She added that the service would hand the foursome over to the police before the close of business today for necessary action adding;” We have done our bit, we will now hand them over to the police for prosecution”.
During interrogation of the suspects by newsmen, Alfa, who initially denied knowledge of any plot to kidnap the ministers, however buckled and admitted to the crime. He said however “the plot was hatched by the students even though I told them I won’t be part of it”, he confessed.
The students on the other hand admitted that the 58-year-old man actually initiated the plot and brought them in. They said they were to be paid N14 Million upon the successful operation. From: GODWIN TSA
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