Juliana Francis
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| The suspects |
A 34-year-old vulcaniser, Jayeola Adelekan, working
with Xinxin Energy Limited, located at the Odogbolu area of Ogun State, has
revealed that he and six other men organised the abduction of his 65-year-old Chinese
boss because he was fond of short paying and sacking Nigerians.
Adelekan was arrested along with six others,
identified as Adetayo Adeniran, Hammed Jabiri, Animashaun Mustapa,
Akeem Lawal, Moruf Razaq and Yinka Jayeola.
The suspects were hunted and arrested after they
kidnapped the 65 years old Defa Song and carried him to an unknown destination.
They were arrested by Operatives of the Force
Intelligence Responses Team, IRT, headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police
(DCP), Abba Kyari.
A few days after Defa’s abduction, his kidnappers asked
for N50million ransom. His daughter, Hongli Song, the owner of the company, petitioned
the Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Mohammed about her father’s abduction.
The IGP had immediately ordered IRT, to launch a
manhunt for the suspects and rescue the Chinese national. The Ogun State, annex
of the IRT, were deployed and some few weeks into their investigations, Adelekan
was arrested.
Adelekan confessed that he and others, working in
the company, including a guard, organised the abduction of Defa.
However, the old man fell sick while in captivity
and died. After Defa died, the kidnappers stuffed him into a drum and gave the
drum to fishermen to get rid of. Adelakan was used as bait to catch other
members of the group.
The Police said:
“According to the suspects, after Defa started working for his daughter,
he started short paying and sacking workers over any imagined error. After
abducting him, they kept him in a house where they fed him with soft drinks and
sausage rolls. Four days after his
abduction, he attempted to escape, but was caught and tied up. He fell sick and
died. Three, among the suspects called Moses and Adelekan, who came with a drum
in a car and stuffed Defa’s remains into the drum. They then tied the drum with
chains. They moved the drum to a river bank and handed it to fishermen.”
Adelekan, who is married with two children, a
primary school dropout, started working in Xinxin Energy Company in 2019 as a
mechanic.
The suspect’s salary was N60, 000. He had worked
there for three months before Defa came from China and joined the company. Defa’s
first major operation after joining the company was to sack Adelekan.
Adelekan recalled: “He sacked me because I bought a
vehicle with my hard earned salary. I was sacked and converted to a contract
worker. One of the company’s guards, Israel, suggested we should kidnap the old
man, that his daughter would pay a lot of money for his release. I called my
younger brother, Hammed Jabiri, who also worked in the company and informed him
about the plan. He bought the idea and invited Moses because he had some guns. In
October 2019, we held a meeting and fine-tuned our plan. On February16, 2020,
someone brought a Corolla car to me to fix. I felt it was a good opportunity to
use the car for the operation.”
The suspect further narrated: “After fixing the car,
I called my friends, Adetayo Adeniran, Dele and Hammed. We got information from
the guard that Defa had stepped out of his house. We went after him and
kidnapped him. We first took him to a bush close to my workshop, but Moses and
Ganiu advised we move him elsewhere. We took him to the home of Morufu. Adetayo
started talking to the man’s daughter. He demanded N50million as ransom, but
while we were still negotiating, I got a call from those guarding Defa, that he
was dead.
“Moses, who got there before me, asked me to come
with a drum. They put his corpse in a sack and stuffed it into the drum. I was
asked to drive to a river bank, where some fishermen were called to take the
drum away in a boat. Moses was the only person that followed the fishermen to
where the drum was dumped.”
Another suspect, Jabiri, who is married with three
children, said a balm (Aboniki) was rubbed into the eyes of Defa immediately after he
was abducted.
He said; “I’m an auto electrician and work with
Xinxin Energy Company. In October 2019, Adelekan suggested we should abduct
Defa, that Hongli, who owns the company, would pay a heavy ransom to get her
father back. We couldn’t kidnap the man at that time because we had no operational
vehicle. When Adelekan called and informed me about a car being available, I
called my friend, Moses, who is a member of Aye confraternity. On the fateful day,
the guard, who was our informant, called and we went and abducted Defa. I rubbed
Aboniki into his eyes. Moses was even
the person that organised where we kept him.
While waiting for the man’s daughter to pay the ransom, I removed my mask
and he recognised me as one of those working for his daughter. I told the guard who brought the job about it
and he suggested I should kill him after I had collected the ransom. Unfortunately,
the man died before the ransom was paid.”
Adediran on his part said he only joined in the
abduction because he needed money to start a business.
His words: “It was my friend, who got me into this
trouble. I went to beg him to help me
with a job in the Chinese company he was working for. He suggested I join in the
abduction of the Chinese man. I was the person that drove the Toyota Corolla car
on the day of the operation. I was hoping to use my share of the money to set
up a business and start a new life. I was the person who called the owner of
the company to demand for the ransom.”
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