Blessing Fernando, a 50-year-old Italian kidnapper has been arrested by the Delta State Police command.
According to reports, he was arrested at Ogbe-Isoko community when he went to collect an additional ransom of N50,000 from a victim’s relatives, having collected N250,000 initially.
He was paraded alongside 22 suspected kidnappers at the command headquarters in Asaba yesterday, having terrorised Ozoro and its environs for years.
The Italian confessed to be a member of the kidnapping syndicate on interrogation but said he was co-opted under duress after he was duped of N600,000.
“They forced me to become their member, if I must get back my money. My desperation to recover my money from them has landed me in this mess.
“They told me to go and wait at the scene where I was arrested for somebody who will bring some money from which they will offset what they had defrauded me.”
Fernando has a Nigerian mother from Isoko and an Italian father.
Nigeria Bulletin
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