One Muanaenye Chekwube Victor has been arrested for his share in the kidnap of his friend in Anambra State.
Victor, according to police account contrived in cahoots with his criminal gang to abduct his friend whose identity was not revealed in the report.
The gang reportedly got the victim abducted after the 24-year-old suspect lured the former to where he was kidnapped, which happened under the guise of seeing a friend.
The victim was held in captivity until N5.3m was paid to the kidnappers in ransom.
“Police operatives attached to the Uli Divisional Police Headquarters on the evening of June 26, 2025, exposed and arrested one Muanaenye Chekwube Victor, ‘M’, aged 24 years, over a reported case of kidnapping.
“The case, which is under investigation revealed that the suspect planned the kidnapping and collected a ransom in dollars equivalent of N5.3m with his gang members before the victim was released.
“The suspect during interrogation confessed to having planned the kidnapping plot by luring his friend to escort him to see another friend. Victor and his criminal gang allegedly abducted their friend and to avoid suspicion pretended to have been kidnapped by his criminal gang.
“Meanwhile, he is now cooperating with the police, providing information to help apprehend his accomplices and will face prosecution at the conclusion of the investigation,” the spokesman for the Anambra State Police Command, Tochukwu Ikenga, wrote in a statement released chiefly on matter.
