Photo: How we chained businessman inside toilet for 4 days - Kidnappers

Three kidnappers have confessed to how they abducted and chained a Lagos businessman, Alhaji Hammed Fashola, inside a toilet for four days.

Two brothers - Kelvin and Victor Igah and one Chukwuma Kingsley kidnapped Fashola near his residence in Egbeda, Lagos on November 13. But luck ran out on them before they could collect the N20 million ransom as they arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad at their hideout on Odeniyi Ishola Street, Isheri-Oshun, Lagos four days later.

According to a report in Punch, while being paraded at the command headquarters on Wednesday November 26th, 39-year-old Kelvin said two gang members, brought Fashola, 55, to the hideout, claiming he owed them a sum of money, which they wanted him to pay by force.

"I was the one assigned to stay with Alhaji (Fashola). On that Thursday, Ike and Odogwu drove Alhaji to my house in Isheri-Oshun. They used my house as the hideout. They said the man owed them some money, and they wanted to make him pay it...
"He spent four days with us. I was the one who chained him inside the toilet. I was also bringing him food for the days he spent," said Kelvin who is married with two kids.

Another member of the gang, Kingsley, 43, from Isele-Ukwu, Delta State, said his role was to monitor Fashola’s movement on the day he was abducted.

"I was assigned to monitor Alhaji’s movement on that Thursday and inform the gang. Once they captured him, I did not follow them to the hideout. I was arrested by the police when the gang named me.
"I was working with a private security company in Apapa, Lagos. I first met Ike and Odogwu in 2006 at a place in the Anthony area. I was promised a sum of N150,000 if I participated."

Meanwhile, Kelvin’s wife, Ogechi, said she heard the screams of the victim in their toilet but was warned by her husband not to go near the room.

"I did not know it was a businessman they kept inside the toilet. I was instructed not to go there. We have three toilets in the house and they locked him up in one of them.
"Whenever the gang members were around, my husband would ask me to go inside with the children. I did not know they kidnapped the man. I knew my husband as a casual worker. My husband said it was one of his bosses who kept the man there. The only mistake I made was that I did not report to the police.