Three brothers Joy Ramond, 19, Peace Ramond, 24, and Ayomide Ramond, 16,
as well as their suspected accomplice, Akinseye Oluwayomi, 18, have
been arrested for kidnaping the 6-year-old daughter of their Church
member. The members of Jehovah Witness Church, Oba-Ile in Akure, Ondo
State, were arrested after one Afolabi Oladapo reported the matter on
Nov. 21. Oladapo reported that his daughter, Jamama, was kidnapped
during Church service by unknown people. She was however, released on
November 22, after the payment of N720,000. Shortly after the payment of
the ransome, a team of policemen stormed the venue where the ransom was
paid and rounded up the four suspects while exhuming the money that had
been buried in an uncompleted building. Speaking to newsmen, Joy, one
of the siblings, confirmed that the victim was a daughter of their
Church’s member, but claimed that they took her home “to warn and scare
her, and not to kidnap her”.“I have always seen the girl running out of
the Kingdom Hall whenever we are having our meeting; that day, I was
coming from my working place and saw her outside the hall around 7 p.m.I
asked her where she was going to, and warned her to be careful so as
not to be kidnapped. I later decided to take her home from where I
called the parents to inform them that the girl was with me.That
particular night I could not reach the parents on phone, but I got them
the next morning and the mother came to pick the girl. I decided to
scare her because I learned that she is the only girl in the family and
was being pampered by the parents.I kept her to scare her so as to
discourage her from straying around. It may be another person that
called them and fabricated the kidnap story so as to dupe them,” she
claimed. Three brothers arrested for kidnapping their church member's daughter in Ondo State
Three brothers Joy Ramond, 19, Peace Ramond, 24, and Ayomide Ramond, 16,
as well as their suspected accomplice, Akinseye Oluwayomi, 18, have
been arrested for kidnaping the 6-year-old daughter of their Church
member. The members of Jehovah Witness Church, Oba-Ile in Akure, Ondo
State, were arrested after one Afolabi Oladapo reported the matter on
Nov. 21. Oladapo reported that his daughter, Jamama, was kidnapped
during Church service by unknown people. She was however, released on
November 22, after the payment of N720,000. Shortly after the payment of
the ransome, a team of policemen stormed the venue where the ransom was
paid and rounded up the four suspects while exhuming the money that had
been buried in an uncompleted building. Speaking to newsmen, Joy, one
of the siblings, confirmed that the victim was a daughter of their
Church’s member, but claimed that they took her home “to warn and scare
her, and not to kidnap her”.“I have always seen the girl running out of
the Kingdom Hall whenever we are having our meeting; that day, I was
coming from my working place and saw her outside the hall around 7 p.m.I
asked her where she was going to, and warned her to be careful so as
not to be kidnapped. I later decided to take her home from where I
called the parents to inform them that the girl was with me.That
particular night I could not reach the parents on phone, but I got them
the next morning and the mother came to pick the girl. I decided to
scare her because I learned that she is the only girl in the family and
was being pampered by the parents.I kept her to scare her so as to
discourage her from straying around. It may be another person that
called them and fabricated the kidnap story so as to dupe them,” she
claimed. 
