Zenon Oil Boss, Femi Otedola seems to be in danger. A notorious kidnapper, Daniel Ikechukwu confessed recently that some close aides of the businessman have been giving him and his gang information on how to kidnap the businessman… “I spent one year in prison and my case was later struck out from court over want of evidence. When I returned, I could not go back to school. I was born and bred in Kaduna State and I speak Hausa Language fluently. While I was in prison, I made friend with Mohammed who is a Fulani, we were in the same cell. After my one year in prison, I realized that prison wasn’t a place for reformation and I that inmates were arranging jobs from the prison. Mohammed came out of prison before me, but when I came out, he told me that he had joined a kidnapping gang. Kidnap operations out of prison.”

“In 2014, I joined Mohammed’s gang and we kidnapped a man. I don’t know the man’s name and we kept him in a forest in Ilorin. We were paid N5million. The second job was the kidnap of an Alhaji and I did the negotiation in that case. We got N15million from the man’s family. I got N2million as my share; I bought a car with my share. The third operation was in Kwara State and we kidnapped a man who identified himself as Akintola. We received N3million as ransom from the family. During the fourth operation, we kidnapped a man and N5million was paid as ransom.”

“After that operation, my gang members kidnapped Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, but I wasn’t carried along. I was in my house in Festac when I saw the news on the television and I called Mohammed to confirm the incident. He told me that it was Maman and his gang that carried out the job. They told me that they were expecting to get nothing less N50million. But, after the family of the senator refused to pay the money and there was police raid all over the place as most of Maman’s relatives and friends were arrested and, there were also police helicopters hovering all over the place, they called me threatening to kill the woman to serve as a deterrent to other would be victims. I begged them for two days because they respect and listen to me. Luckily for the woman, she was released and they all absconded. That single effort I did saved the life of the Senator. If not, the Fulani boys would have hacked her to death.”

“I would have kidnapped Femi Otedola in November. There is someone working with Otedola who brought the kidnapping job to us and the person told us that he was going to be in Ibadan. When we went, we saw that there was heavy security presence around him and I told my gang members that we must wait and plan very well before carrying out the operation. I told them that the first thing I would do to ensure the success of the operation was to do spiritual sacrifice to the gods and ensure that I defeat them spiritually before going for him. You know a man like Otedola, is powerful spiritually. Then, the next step was to ensure that we get army, DSS and police uniforms. I realized without impersonation, there was no way I would be able to go close to a man of such status.”

“Our last plan was to ensure that we monitor his movements regularly through our contact which is that person close to him and we would strike on a day that he has very little security men around me. I would have achieved all this by November and if we had succeeded, it was going to be my last job as I would have demanded N2billion and I was hopeful he will pay me nothing less than N500 million. I was always ahead of security operatives. I have a friend who is into hacking and he helped me hack into DSS and police websites and through that process, I normally monitor their new tracking methods. Before I was arrested, I knew the police were looking for me but I believed in my knowledge of Nigeria security apparatus. But it failed me.”