{"id":155875,"date":"2019-09-28T12:40:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T11:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=155875"},"modified":"2019-09-28T12:40:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T11:40:21","slug":"bizarre-confession-our-target-was-to-kill-20-people-says-benue-kidnap-kingpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=155875","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre Confession: Our Target Was To Kill 20 People, Says Benue Kidnap Kingpin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-png view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Bizarre-Confession-Our-Target-Was-To-Kill-20-People-Says-Benue-Kidnap-Kingpin.png\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Leader of a kidnap gang in Benue State, Iorwuese Kpila, 30, has said that he and his colleagues were given a target by one \u2018queen spirit\u2019 to kill 20 people and take the victims\u2019 blood for ritual purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Iorwuese made the confession on Friday while being paraded at the Benue State Police Command headquarters in Makurdi, the capital, alongside six members of his gang and five others arrested for child trafficking, armed robbery and other crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old said that he wanted to be powerful and influential in his community even beyond Benue State that was why he engaged in criminal activities.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI was born in 1989 and I\u2019m married with four children and four wives but so far, only one wife is staying with me and she is not aware that I\u2019m into this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father was a native doctor and he worked with so many spirits. When we kidnap people, we kill them and dispossess them of their valuables.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe give them concoction that make them carry out whatever task we ask them before killing them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, we have kidnapped 16 persons, robbed them of their vehicles, motorcycles and other belongings, killed the victims, buried the corpses and planted cassava on the graves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018queen spirit\u2019 directed us to do so and after meeting the target of 20, we would acquire whatever we want in life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the \u2018queen spirit\u2019 that consumed the blood of our victims.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of a kidnap gang in Benue State, Iorwuese Kpila, 30, has said that he and his colleagues were given a target by one \u2018queen spirit\u2019 to kill 20 people and take the victims\u2019 blood for ritual purposes. Iorwuese made the confession on Friday while being paraded at the Benue State Police Command headquarters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-155875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-benue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}