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I Collected Ransom In Dollars, Used It For My Children’s School Fees, Feeding – Lagos-based Alleged Kidnapper

Tosin Oke, a suspected kidnapper popularly known as old soldier, has stated that he spent his share of kidnapping ransom on his children’s education and other household expenses.

A six-man armed gang abducted an oil magnate at his dredging site on Ado Road in Ajah area of Lagos State, some months ago.

They took him away in a speedboat to an undisclosed location via the waterways.

It was learnt that the heavily armed kidnappers fired shots into the air to deter anyone from approaching them.

According to the report, the victim’s family managed to raise N42 million, which they converted into $30,000 as demanded by the kidnappers, along with an additional N100,000 in cash.

The ransom was delivered to the gang, but three of the kidnappers—Adelaja Ikuesan, 37, Tosin Oke, 40, and Oluwabunmi Yusuf, 39—were eventually apprehended in their hideout after dividing the ransom.

However, Tosin who was part of the gang that abducted the oil magnate expressed deep regret for his involvement in the crime.
Oke, who spoke in Pidgin English in a video by Vanguard on social media on Monday stressed that he was not sure if he was bewitched into joining them.

Stressing that he does not understand how he became part of them:

“They gave me $1,700, and when I exchanged it at the Bureau De Change, I received N1.8 million. I used part of it for my children’s school fees, feeding, and saved the rest in my account. I regret getting involved in this; I’m not even sure if I was bewitched into joining them. I don’t understand how I became part of this.

“I honestly regret getting myself involved in this,” Oke said. “Even my family members questioned my involvement because they knew I had never been involved in anything like this before. I used to work as an agent for the police in Zone 2. What could have driven me to participate in something like this?”

Source: https://saharareporters.com/2024/08/26/i-collected-ransom-dollars-used-it-my-childrens-school-fees-feeding-lagos-based-alleged

Regret ONLY because he was caught

Crime never pays.

He even being a former police man makes it even worse.

Well, you won't be SOON released and will rot in jail...

And your wife/children will SOON forget you.

So the SOONer you realise this, the better.

You don't know if you were bewitched?

At least you didn't lie on the devil, you try.

Bad

And he's still breathing

Kidnappers are worse than Armed Robbers. They deserve worse punishment.

Armed Robbers will operate & you count your losses. But kidnappers will traumatise the victim & his relatives as long as it lasts.

tojahh:
Source: https://saharareporters.com/2024/08/26/i-collected-ransom-dollars-used-it-my-childrens-school-fees-feeding-lagos-based-alleged

He said he worked as Police agent and served as kidnapper collecting $1700, to feed and send his children to school. He want to eat the good of his children after making others to weep. He even built a house in Badagry. Most of this criminals disguise as artisans.

You dey collect $ and na someone deceive you!

Ogbeni let them kill all kidnappers soonest!

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Yoruba kidnapping Yoruba
This one na hux matter

And some people want us to believe that it is only Igbos that are kidnappings people in Lagos , but the truth keeps revealing itself....

Crime knows no tribe, condemn the crime and not the tribe

Kasala, crime never pay,no matter how you try to normalized it,it's end must still be regret upon regrets

calabaman:
Crime never pays.

He even being a former police man makes it even worse.

Well, you won't be SOON released and will rot in jail...

And your wife/children will SOON forget you.

So the SOONer you realise this, the better.

crime no pay but em use am pay school fees

" I regret getting involved in this; I’m not even sure if I was bewitched into joining them. I don’t understand how I became part of this.

“I honestly regret getting myself involved in this,” Oke said.

if he was not caught, would he regret?

Heartless set of people

Hmmmmm. Nawaoo.. all ronu ... this miscreants will not come and slam him for being a kidnapper ..

Pele o... Agent onikure.... Omo ale

U go explain tire. Out of 42.1 million, they only gave you $1,700 despite the huge risk taking. No be juju be that?

Please they should cut off their head ASAP

Truth don dey come out. See the names na.

Team Omoluabis

Western miscreant

tojahh:
Source: https://saharareporters.com/2024/08/26/i-collected-ransom-dollars-used-it-my-childrens-school-fees-feeding-lagos-based-alleged

Does it mean that if Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo Olu used the masses' revenues to make education free in schools with adequate teachers, the kidnappers would not have been motivated to commit the crime

APC progreThieves have ruined our country.

Babasessy:
The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

                                                                             http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

CanadaOrBust:
Regret ONLY because he was caught

His REGRET would REFLECT in the real meaning.

Nawa oooo
Bad economy

Abi na imbalanced economy where few are extremely rich and the rest extremely poor and struggling