“We shot and killed Aisha Alli-Balogun” – Kidnap suspects confess to murder of Stand Up Nigeria presenter
Almost two months after popular presenter of Stand Up Nigeria, Aisha Thelma Alli-Balogun was gruesomely murdered in Ikorodu, police high command in Abuja has disclosed four suspects have been arrested in connection with the crime.
Two suspected members of the gang behind the attack were arrested last Monday night at Majidun/Ajegunle Area of Ikorodu, Lagos state, Vanguard reports.
The suspects, identified as Alex Super, aka Yanga and Egbasimokumo Ayeomi, were apprehended after allegedly taking part in the kidnap of eight schoolgirls and staff of Nigeria Turkish International College (NTIC), Ogun State, weeks ago. A sum of N3 million was reportedly recovered from the suspects.
They have also confessed to the killing of Aisha, a police source revealed.
One of the suspects, identified as Super, reportedly confessed to partaking in the killing of Aisha, as well as the kidnap of the school girls.
“My gang leader, American was the one who killed Alli-Balogun. He told us after the operation that when he stopped the woman’s car she was accompanied by a man and two children, but when he stopped them the man ran out of the car with the children while the woman sped off with the car and that he shot her because she almost killed him with the car. That it was after killing the woman that he abducted her daughter,” Super is quoted as saying.
“He explained that the woman almost killed him before he shot her. Stone, who was the leader of camp was not happy with the killing but he said he had no option. We kidnapped six persons, including the woman’s two year-old daughter and a ransom of N2million was paid before their release. Someone who claimed to be the woman’s husband paid us N500,000, before we released the two–year-old girl.
“The relations of the other victims paid us N1.5million and I got N45,000 as my share. That was because the people in the camp were many.”
The other suspect, Ayeomi, confessed he got N2million for his role as the house keeper in the camp.
Six other suspects, including a militant general Philip Joel, also known as General Kakadu and a nurse, Felicia Weinoh, who specialized in treating ailing victims and members of the kidnapping gang terrorizing Lagos and Ogun states, were earlier arrested by the operatives of the Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, led by Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP Abba Kyari.
