Officials of the Nigeria Police Force Delta State Command during the weekend exhumed the decomposing body of a 54-year-old woman. The woman was killed and buried in a shallow grave by kidnappers after collecting N650,000 ransom from her family.
Reportngr.com learnt that the woman identified as Mrs. Philomina Ogadi a native of Otulukpo in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta was abducted last week by a nine-man gang.
However, the kidnappers killed Mrs. Ogadi and buried her corpse in a bush along Benin-Agbor-Onitsha expressway in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of the state.
According to the victim’s eldest son, one of the suspects lived in the same apartment with his mother before she was kidnapped and murdered.
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One of the suspects led the state Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Operations, Faleye Olayele and other police officers to the shallow grave where they buried the victim. Meanwhile, the apprehended suspects confessed to the crime. One of them claimed that it was his first attempt of kidnapping and robbery.
Nevertheless, while briefing journalists at the state police headquarters in Asaba, the Commissioner of Police, Ari Mohammed Ali, said the woman’s body was found with gunshot injuries on her head.
The commissioner of Police stated:
“Having killed the woman and buried her in a shallow grave, they did not stop there, they went on calling the children and collecting ransom. So far, they have collected N650,000 from her children after killing the woman,”
“They made the children to believe that their mother was still alive. They did a video recording of their mother and played before the children, making them to believe that their mother was still alive.” he added.
