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Notorious kidnapper bags 11 years in prison

A notorious and infamous kidnapper, Chief Daniel Okafor was on Wednesday sent to cool off in the prison by an Asaba High Court after bagging 11 years in prison.

Chief Daniel Okafor, who is also known as Odogwu Anam, the czar of the criminal gang alleged to be in charge of incessant kidnappings in Anambra and Delta states.

Okafor and his syndicate had attempted to kidnap an Asaba-based industrialist, Chief John Ucheche on January 16, 2013, but was nabbed by the police.

The crime kingpin was arrested following the confessional statement of one Mr. Ifeanyi Iwuno, one of the assailants, who was said to have later escaped from police custody after his arrest for the attempted kidnap. Iwuno confessed to being part of an armed gang that attempted to kidnap Ucheche and named Okafor as the mastermind.

Okafor, who claimed to be the chairman of a non-existent National Task Force on Illegal Importation of Small Arms, Light Weapons and Monitoring of Oil Pipeline Vandalism, River Niger Operations, gnashed his teeth when the trial judge found him guilty on the charge of conspiracy to commit a felony to wit, kidnapping, which is punishable under section 516 of the Criminal Code Law Cap C21 Volume I, Laws of Delta State, 2006.

He was also found guilty on the count of attempted kidnap and was sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison with hard labour while he bagged another five years for conspiracy to kidnap and six years for the attempted kidnap of the industrialist.

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