Eighteen year old Goodness Kaku-smart has confessed to the police about how him and members of his gang kidnapped, killed one David Kalu-onyems and buried him in a shallow grave after collecting two million naira ransom from the family.
Kaku-smart said Kenneth Owondha, Dennis Igwe Ibentaho Favour John who are all eighteen years and twenty year old Idaresit Emmanuel-kpene A.K.A Daddy Boy as well as Mercy Udoh who is forty-three year old arrested by police joined in the kidnap that led to the death of David Kalu-onyems. Kalu-Smart while revealing how his boss lured him into the kidnapping business with promise of making him rich, revealed that his boss made to take blood oath never to reveal to anyone.
Kalu-Smart further disclosed that he shot the victim on his leg when he tried to struggle his gun with him. Narrating further on how they kidnapped their victim, He explained that they carried their nefarious act at gunpoint around boundary between Imo and Rivers States,
He said they killed and buried him before they were arrested by the operative of C4I Intelligent with one AK47 magazine and a Pistol. He pleaded for mercy. A relative of the kidnapped victim, Ibe Ifeanyichukwu who spoke to newsmen at the state command headquarters demanded for justice over the kidnap and murder of his uncle.
He lamented that the action of the kidnappers has thrown his entire family into mourning and only justice will assuage the already bereaved family. Another victim, Abubakar Ibrahim-Umar whose truck was conveying one Hundred and Fifty bags of fertilizer valued at twenty-two million Naira said suspects also ambushed, diverted him to Igbo-Etche. He said he was rescued by the police and recovered their vehicle and goods.
