Trial of kidnappers: Victims identify suspects, recount paying over N63m ransom

Victims of the present celebrated rootlike marketplace kidnapping syndicate person recounted however their abductors collected implicit N63 cardinal arsenic ransom from them.

The victims besides narrated however the suspects dispossessed them of different valuables worthy respective millions of naira.

DAILY POST reports that the victims narrated their ordeals successful the hands of the kidnapping syndicate portion testifying arsenic witnesses successful the ongoing proceedings of the suspects earlier the peculiar tribunal acceptable up by the Edo State Government successful Benin City.

Recall that suspected kidnappers abducted a pistillate astatine a fashionable rootlike marketplace on Airport Road, Benin City, astatine astir 10:15 a.m. connected Sunday, June 14, 2026.

The apprehension of 1 of the suspects and different alleged members of the transgression pack by a combined squad of information operatives successful the authorities prompted Governor Monday Okpebholo to acceptable up a peculiar transgression tribunal to effort cases related to kidnapping and cultism.

The suspects, Marvelous Isaac, 32, Wisdom Michael, 36, Rufus Emete Michael, 30, and Gift Raphael, 27, are being prosecuted by the Edo State Government and the Police.

They are lasting proceedings connected an 11-count complaint bordering connected alleged kidnapping, equipped robbery, cultism and unlawful possession of firearms.

The prosecution, led by the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary, ...