WHY I JOINED KIDNAPPING GANG - FEMALE SUSPECT

A 36-year old woman, Ngozi Onuonwu who was arrested in Lagos for her alleged involvement in kidnapping has opened up and said that frustration led her into it  because she did not see any man to marry her.Click on read more below to continue...

  The remorseful Ngozi said if she had married like her mates she would not have lived with her younger brother, Chibuzor who got her involved in kidnapping.She narrated how the youths in her community at Umuleri in Anambra State engaged in a communal war with their neighboring community, Aguleri which lasted for several years.She said many youths died and this affected many girls including her as they could not get married.

She said her fiancée died in the war and she did not get another man and so she had to move to Lagos and started living with Chibuzor.When asked if Chibuzor was a victim of communal war, she said when peace returned to the two communities, the youths who participated in the fight were not de-mobilized.

The police in Lagos on Tuesday paraded Ngozi along with six other suspected members of her gang for allegedly kidnapping people in Lagos State southwest Nigeria.