Kidnapping: I bought my AK-47 from soldier for N300,000 –Suspect

A 34-year-old suspected kidnapper, Sampson Ebiowei, from Ofunama, Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State, has been caught with an AK-47 rifle along with 88 rounds of ammunition, which the suspect said he bought from a soldier serving in Maidugiru, Borno State, for N300, 000.

Parading Ebiowei and other suspects on Friday at the Edo State Police Command in Benin City, the new Police Commissioner, Philip Ogbadu, said the Command has made some modest achievements from January 13 to February 4 that he presided over as police boss.

Narrating his alleged involvement in kidnapping, Ebiowei, who has three wives and four children, said he was originally captured in the Federal Government’s Amnesty Programme for repentant Niger-Delta militants, but was stopped after three months because he refused to give kickback to his uncle who had helped him. And, in anger he contacted a soldier friend serving in Maiduguri who sold the gun to him at the cost of N300, 000 along with 88 rounds of ammunition.

“I was captured in the Federal Government’s Amnesty Programme before, and was being paid N65,000 per month, but my uncle who helped me to get the job said he wants to be collecting N20,000 from the money. “However, because I said no, he removed my name from the programme.

“I had bought the gun to fight the oil companies in our place, because they have refused to give us jobs,” he said. Highlighting his achievements since arriving Benin, Ogbadu said the Command has arrested 26 suspected cultists; 17 armed robbers; 11 kidnap suspects and six murder suspects.

Other arrests made include five persons for assault and one person for rape. He said the Command also recovered 119 rounds of live ammunition and eight vehicles among other things.

According to Ogbadu, the command will collaborate with local hunters, vigilante groups, and sister agencies to bring down the rate of crime in the state.

“We will deploy anticrime patrols and operations around identified black spots in the state and engage in bush combing “Among other things, our town Hall Stakeholders’ Meetings have commenced and will be regularly held to review the security situations.

“Engagement of Community members in accordance with Community Policing Philosophy of the IGP, intelligence-led policing will be encouraged. The Command

https://www.newtelegraphng.com/kidnapping-i-bought-my-ak-47-from-soldier-for-n300000-suspect/

People who are paid to protect lives and properties are arming our tormentors instead.

Freestainworld:
People who are paid to protect lives and properties are arming our tormentors instead.

funny Nigerian government you give somebody gun to hold and you are paying him peanut as salary what do you expect him to do with the gun

Make una pay soldiers better salary una no gree

Nigerian girls are useless.

I hope this one is fulani herdsman

I have heard similar narrations while in the northeast. I'm not surprised.

Before? Where else?

Rot in every sector.

sunnybobonwa:
Kidnapping: I bought my AK-47 from soldier for N300,000 –Suspect



https://www.newtelegraphng.com/kidnapping-i-bought-my-ak-47-from-soldier-for-n300000-suspect/

Check this out and what do you see?

God should just send down fire or water to wash off Africa to dust

Okay, unto the next

Guns are cheap in Nigeria, if you know your way around. You can get an AK-47 for as low as N85,000.

While the solder bought it from boko haram for 30,000k that's business

ojiamu:
I hope this one is fulani herdsman

He is Christian like you & your tribes man.
Ipobian boars killing & committing capital crimes since 1966.
I am very sure the gun he is claiming to have bought, for 300k, was stolen from a police station during the end SARS saga.

Without reading it I know the tribe of the soldier he got the gun from

Hmmmm
Corruption everywhere

What a failed nation

Okay na

Narrating his alleged involvement in kidnapping, Ebiowei, who has three wives and four children, said he was originally captured in the Federal Government’s Amnesty Programme for repentant Niger-Delta militants, but was stopped after three months because he refused to give kickback to his uncle who had helped him. And, in anger he contacted a soldier friend serving in Maiduguri who sold the gun to him at the cost of N300, 000 along with 88 rounds of ammunition

The monster they made.

Waala

soldier selling a gun to a citizen?


see wetin Buratai cause!

Nigerian girls are useless.
Watin concern girls for this matter. Your madness get certificate