One of the two kidnap suspects paraded by the State Security Service in Port Harcourt on Sunday, has appealed to the Federal Government to pardon him for the crime and give him the task of ending hostage-taking in the state.
Nnamdi Eme, a native of Ogbakiri in Emuohua Local Government Area of the state, told our correspondent that he was lured into the act of hostage-taking because of hardship and unemployment.
The father of five and seller of chippings, said he was worried over the fate of his children and wife, who might have been delivered of the sixth child without his presence and support.
Nnamdi said, �Please tell the government to forgive us; we will never do it again. In fact, if they forgive us, we are going to put a stop to kidnapping and other forms of atrocities in the state. I was forced into this evil work by hardship and lack of job.
�We know all the boys who carry out the abduction of foreign oil workers and we are the only ones who can talk to them to stop.
�If I am out of this detention today, I know where to go and get all the boys who have been carrying out the attacks on oil companies and talk to them to stop further attacks.
�I want to say that if I talk to them and they refuse to listen to me, I would hand them over to the government for necessary action.�
Eme, who claimed to be the owner of a company called Isanic Enterprises, said he had already been offered a job by one of the oil companies before he was misled into hostage-taking by Prince Igodo when the latter visited him and solicited help to run as the governor of Rivers State.