The three individuals suspected to have kidnapped 20 potential National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) members and two others suspected to have kidnapped different individuals on Independence Day(1st October, 2026) alongside Owerri-Onitsha Road in Umunoha, Mbaitoli LGA of Imo state have pleaded not responsible to the fees towards them.
During their arraignment by the Department of State Service(DSS) on the State High Court, Owerri, headed by Justice Emeka Orafu, Tuesday, the suspects, Mohammed Aliyu, Usman Aliyu and Babangida Aliyu, suspected to have kidnapped the youth corpers and Ibrahim Jiji, Aminu Haliru (aka Little Pepper) suspected to have kidnapped different individuals, denied data of the kidnapping and pleaded not responsible of the fees towards them.
The suspects, who had been stated to have collected the sum of 48 million as ransom from their abductees, had been clad in white apparel as they had been arraigned, thus giving the impression that they had been excessive profile kidnappers.
However, in a chat with the counsel to the suspects, Paschal Ofoma instantly after the listening to, stated the suspects had been assumed harmless till confirmed in any other case and said that they might be again in court docket on the twenty eighth of October for the continuation of the case.
