Clara David, the wife of detained suspected kidnapper, Mr Prosper Nengi David, has revealed how she arranged for a ‘private room’ for her husband who was at the Port Harcourt prisons by paying a warder the sum of N480,000.
The suspected kidnapper managed to coordinate the activities of his kidnap gang with a phone, meaning that there was likely connivance between him and prison authorities.
One of the members of the group, Ifeanyi Nwanfo, told Vanguard from the custody of the Anti-Kidnap Unit of the Rivers State Police Command that their leader coordinated the group’s activities with a phone while in detention.
Clara, said she paid an un-named warder N480,000 on the instruction of her husband, to enable the warder arrange private rooms for him and some other inmates.
She said she paid the money in three instalments.
She was arrested on suspicion of receiving money from the group as an accomplice to her husband, who had been livng with since 2011 having given birth to a son, although they are not legally married.
She confessed to receiving the sum of N950, N1.5 million and N1 million from the other members of the group on her husband’s behave since his arrest in October 2015, Vanguard reports.
The money was meant for a lawyer who was working towards her husband’s release, she said.
However, she denied having knowledge of her husband’s kidnapping business, saying she only knew he was an oil bunkerer but not a kidnapper.
Leave a Reply