A document from the Nigerian Police Intelligence Response Team has revealed that the Accra Passport office issued a passport to the arrested billionaire kidnapper with a fake name- Asare Nelson.
Even though his real name is Chikwudubem Onwuamadike, officers of the Accra Office contrived to issue the passport to the billonaire kidnapper under the name Asare Nelson on 10 January 2013. It will expire in January 2018.
The Nigerian billionaire kidnapper was arrested on June 10, 2017 at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport while exiting the country.
The Intelligence Response Team also discovered 1,282 AK47 assault rifles after a thorough search at his Lagos residence.
The Inspector General of the Nigerian Police Service, Ibrahim Kpotun who was in Accra disclosed the arrest of Mr Onwuamadike and cautioned government to tighten Ghana’s passport system.
‘Nigerians are celebrating the arrest of the Nigerian/Ghanaian…Ghanaian because he has the Ghanaian passport something you guys have to look at,’ Mr Kpotun said at the West Africa National Security Conference at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra Tuesday.
The kidnapper popularly known as Evans in Nigeria is reported to charge from $1 million to $6 million ransom from the families of his victims
The Nigeria Intelligence Response Team said in late 2015, Mr Onwuamadike kidnapped one James Uji at 7the Avenue Festec Town in Lagos State and held him for six weeks after a ransom of $1.2 million had been paid.
He also kidnapped one Chief Raymond Okoye Odunaichida also in 2015 and took $1 million ransom before releasing him.
The document signed by the Nigerian Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP Abba Kyari said Mr Onwuamadike has moved his wife and five children to Ghana because of the nature of his business.
The kidnapper’s plush residence in Ghana is said to be located at the Spintex Road in Accra. The duplex structure is where Mrs Uchenna Precious Onwuamadike is said to reside with their children.
The 31-year-old woman in a telephone conversation with Nigeria’s Vanguard newspaper from Ghana said she was not aware her husband was into kidnapping.
“All I know about his business is that he was into haulage, buying engine and spare parts for trucks and imports exhaust pipes,” Vanguard reported.
Meanwhile North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has charged security agencies to move in quickly to arrest any accomplices with the kidnapper in Ghana.
The lawmaker told Joy News Tuesday the use of Ghanaian passport by Mr Onwuamadike exposes the weaknesses in the country's passport system.
"For now it is a case to do more with kidnapping and those loopholes in the passport system could be used by terrorists [so] they have to be identified and closed so that other terrorists will not exploit that," he said
Source: myjoyonline
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THIS SHOWS HOW CORRUPT THE NDC GOVERNMENT WAS !!! SHOULD WE ALLOW THESE CRIMINALS TO RULE AGAIN ??? NEVER,NEVER EVER AGAIN !!!
This happened under the watch of the greedy and corrupt John Ford Mahama..... He appointed corrupt people who were sleeping on the job and only collecting bribes and giving passports to cr!m!nals with fake names. No wonder a cheap and corrupt president who can be bribed with a ford car by a foreigner and be given govt contracts.
THIS WEAK PASSPORT SYSTEM IS NOTHING NEW. IT HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR DECADES. WE THE GHANAIANS SUFFER TO GET WHAT IS DUE US BECAUSE WE WON'T PAY, BUT CRIMINALS CAN EASILY GET PASSPORTS BECAUSE THEY CAN PAY ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY BEING CHARGED BY THE PASSPORT OFFICE. HOW THIS BE HAPPENING? ANY ONE CAN COME TO GHANA AND GET A PASSPORT WITHOUT HAVING TO DO ANYTHING. ARE WE EVEN SAFE AS A COUNTRY? IT IS SO EMBARRASSING TO ME AS A GHANAIAN THAT OUR PASSPORT HAVE BECOME A COMMON PIECE OF DEGRADED PAPER THAT ANY ONE CAN OBTAIN FOR HIS/HER CRIMINAL DEEDS. GOD HAVE MERCY ON US.
I wonder what the President through the Foreign affairs minister is doing about the passport six months since the NPP Government came into power. How can a bona-fide Ghanaian struggle for 6months or more getting a common passport when a Nigerian criminal can simply acquire one in days. Mr President, please the ordinary Ghanaian is not feeling any change in the Passport Office nor the DVLA. These are some of the reasons why some of us voted for change. Your excellency most of the guys at Passport office are stinkling corrupt. Let's feel the wind of change too. Why?
It is a pity Ghanaians born in Ghana has to struggle before getting a passport. The passport office is a mess and it does not matter where you are. For 2 years Ghanaians in the USA had to go through hell and yet passports were not been issued to us. Am not surprised a Nigerian has made his way through. This is just an eye opener for us and it is also a wake up call. Government should put strict measures in place so that such incidents could be stopped.
Is this the new job for our North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa. Every country have issues with their passports especially the so called developing countries. But thanks for your suggestion.
mr president please lend me ghana for just 3 months, i will turn ghana's public offices into the uk system. you either follow or go home .