How I Was Kidnapped By A Club Girl In Ikeja- Victim Narrates Story

Male readers should read this and learn from it.

A 28-year-old man, Ayodele Olaoye, who was

allegedly kidnapped by a lady, Esther Phillips, he

met at a Club in Opebi, Lagos, has narrated his

ordeal before an Ikeja High Court.

Esther was said to have conspired with six others

to commit the alleged offence.The other suspects

are Patricia Nna, Kingsley Okonwa, Osita Adigwe,

Uzochukwu Ezioha, Jude Sunday and Michael

Olarenwaju, who are being prosecuted by the

Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP.

The seven defendants who were arraigned on

March 5 are facing a five-count charge of

conspiracy, armed robbery, kidnapping and

neglect to prevent felony.

Led in evidence by Mr Ade Ipaye, Attorney General

of Lagos State and Commissioner for Justice,

Olaoye said he had taken the accused to bed twice

since they met in February 2012 and they became

friends.

Olaoye, who said he came back into the country in

December 2011, after his graduation from a

university in England, said the first defendant gave

her name as Jenny and claimed to be a student of

Lagos State University, LASU.

Olaoye who was testifying at the trial of the seven

kidnap suspects before Justice Olabisi Akinlade,

said on April 22, 2012, at about 4 p.m, which was

on a Sunday, the first defendant asked him to

follow her to her hostel in LASU and he agreed

because he trusted her.

How I was kidnapped

Olaoye said he drove his Nissan Muranno SUV

and picked Philips up at a first generation bank in

Opebi and they moved towards LASU with Phillips

giving the directions that he should go and pick

her friend, the second defendant, whom he said

gave her name as Juliet.

He said after they had picked up Nna, the second

defendant at Dopemu, Philips told him that the

lady was her school mate.

According to him, after driving for sometime, they

told me to stop at an isolated place because they

were pressed, adding that immediately he stopped

the car, three men, Okonwa, Adigwe and Ezioha,

entered his car through the back door.

He said the defendants who were armed with a

battle axe and knives dragged him to the back seat

and took his mobile phone, wrist watch, necklace

and money.

Olaoye said he was tied up, blindfolded and taken

to an unknown destination by the first to fifth

accused persons who told him to cooperate or they

would kill him, adding that they took his phone

and called his mum first to inform her that he was

in a cage.

The ransom

The plaintiff said after speaking with his mum,

they also called his father and told him that he was

in a cage and demanded a ransom of $400,000.

He said Phillips specifically told him to try and

convince his parents to pay the money or the guys

would kill him.

Olaoye said he was incarcerated for four days,

adding that the defendants collected N5 million

ransom from his parents.

According to him, his father, Mr Segun Olaoye,

paid N5 million to them which they shared among

themselves.

My escape

He said it was while they were sharing the money

that he was able to sneak out of the house where

he was being held and took a motorcycle to his

father’s office in Gowon Estate in Iyana-Ipaja.

After which he wrote a statement at the Police

station but he couldn’t remember the exact date or

the particular police station.

However, the matter has been adjourned.