We received N15.1m ransom to free Lagos King — Arrested suspect

Today, Isaiah Ododomu, one of the 9 kidnappers of the rescued Oniba of Iba, Oba Goriola Oseni, confessed to journalists that his gang received N15.1m ransom in two tranches. He said that they received an initial ransom of N12m and a subsequent ransom of N3.1m

The two suspects arrested so far are Toba Forejo and Isaiah Ododomu, both from Ondo State. Ododomu, who said he used to be a bunkerer, explained that since the bunkering business had been stopped, they decided to go into kidnapping.

His words: “I am a bunkering man, when this government stopped the bunkering business, our leaders fomed another group and we started kidnapping to manage ourselves. I am a married man and I don’t have any job to cater for my family.

When we started the kidnapping business, whenever they collected N500,000, they will give me N20,000. After Toba, Igodo, Mighty, Folly and Sam, kidnapped the king, they demand for N500m, after that they reduced it to N40m. In the end, we got N15.1m.

All our senior people got the lion share of the money. They gave me N200, 000. I was the one who paddled the oba on the water, back to Iba, while the others fled and that I was arrested.”