KIDNAP: Court Jails Native Doctor For 10 Years

KIDNAP: Court Jails Native Doctor For 10 Years

An Effurun High Court, Effurun, Delta State, has sentenced a 46- year- old native doctor identified as Philip Itoje to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour for kidnapping the wife of a professor working at the state-owned university.

The convict was found guilty of kidnapping one Mrs. Christiana Eruotor, wife of a professor with the Delta State University Abraka (Delsu), and he was sentenced by Justice Benjamin Ikoh who also insisted that the accused would serve his jail term with hard labour.

The court held that from the evidence before it, there were facts that pointed out that the accused person was guilty of the act.

It was gathered that the convict, who hails from Kokori, Ethiope East Local Government of the state, had been posing as “prophet” of God before the bubble burst.

He arrested by security operatives after Mrs. Eruotor, a retired chartered accountant with the state-owned university, Abraka was declared missing.

Reports said that the victim left home on August 7, 2012, after informing her husband that she was travelling to London for the 2012 Olympic Games.

But this was not to be as she did not come home and all efforts to locate her proved abortive.

The accused was arrested by the police and later handed over to men of the State Security Service for further investigation after it was established through the victim (Mrs. Eruotor’s) call data log that there was phone contacts between the accused and the victim from 2nd to 7th August 2013. It was also established after a call data analysis, that the accused called the victim five times on the morning she was missing.

The accused, however, denied the allegations as he told the SSS that the last time he remembered to have any contact with the victim was in June 2012, which further aroused the suspicion of security operatives as the call data log indicated otherwise.