Gwamnishu Says Brother Behind Kidnapped Couple In Auchi Arrested With Guns
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#Breaking News #Auchi #Aviele #Ednut #Gwamnishu #Police #VDM ©January 9th, 2026 ®January 9, 2026 7:04 pm Harrison Gwamnishu, the founder of a registered private organisation assisting the Nigeria security operatives with credible and reliable intelligence information that have led to the killing and arrest of several kidnappers in the West Africa country, especially in the South South geopolitical zone of Edo and Delta states, in a video statement issued via his verified social media account a few hours ago, has said that the family member and a brother of the kidnapped couple who worked with him and his team to deliver the prepared sting operational ₦20 million ransom to the kidnappers has been arrested alongside his gang members with guns, but, according to Harrison Gwamnishu, immediately the Nigeria Police Force noticed that he could vividly recognised the suspect as a brother to the kidnapped couple, the Nigeria Police Force quickly released the suspect and charged other members of his gang arrested in Auchi to court, even when the kidnapping involving the suspect's brother and wife is generating more reactions after the wife was set free by the kidnappers while the husband who is the suspect's brother is still held in captivity till date by the kidnappers since both were kidnapped in their home at Aviele village in the Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State in late days of November 2025. #OsazuwaAkonedo
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#Breaking News #Auchi #Aviele #Ednut #Gwamnishu #Police #VDM ©January 9th, 2026 ®January 9, 2026 7:04 pm Harrison Gwamnishu, the founder of a registered private organisation assisting the Nigeria security operatives with credible and reliable intelligence information that have led to the killing and arrest of several kidnappers in the West Africa country, especially in the South South geopolitical zone of Edo and Delta states, in a video statement issued via his verified social media account a few hours ago, has said that the family member and a brother of the kidnapped couple who worked with him and his team to deliver the prepared sting operational ₦20 million ransom to the kidnappers has been arrested alongside his gang members with guns, but, according to Harrison Gwamnishu, immediately the Nigeria Police Force noticed that he could vividly recognised the suspect as a brother to the kidnapped couple, the Nigeria Police Force quickly released the suspect and charged other members of his gang arrested in Auchi to court, even when the kidnapping involving the suspect's brother and wife is generating more reactions after the wife was set free by the kidnappers while the husband who is the suspect's brother is still held in captivity till date by the kidnappers since both were kidnapped in their home at Aviele village in the Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State in late days of November 2025. #OsazuwaAkonedo
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00:00Harrison Gwamnishu, the founder of a registered private organization assisting the Nigeria security operatives with credible and reliable intelligence information that have led to the killing and arrest of several kidnappers in the West Africa country, especially in the south-south geopolitical zone of Edo and Delta states, in a video statement issued via his verified social media account a few hours ago, has said that the family member and a brother of the kidnapped couple who worked with him and his team to deliver them.
00:30the prepared sting operational 20 million naira's ransom to the kidnappers has been arrested alongside his gang members with guns, but, according to Harrison Gwamnishu, immediately the Nigeria police force noticed that he could vividly recognize the suspect as a brother to the kidnapped couple.
00:47The Nigeria police force quickly released the suspect and charged other members of his gang arrested in Auchi to court, even when the kidnapping involving the suspect's brother and wife is generating more reactions after the wife was set free by the kidnappers while the husband who is the suspect's brother is still held in captivity till date by the kidnappers since both were kidnapped in their home at Avili village in the Etsuko West local government area of Edo state in late days of November 2025.
01:15According to Harrison Gwamnishu, before the ransom money was delivered to the kidnappers inside the bush, the kidnappers made a phone call to the arrested and quickly set free suspect to give him the exact location to drop the money.
01:29He was surprised to hear one of the kidnapped victims, the husband still with the kidnappers begging his brother who is currently seen as the suspect behind the kidnapping to forgive him if he has done anything wrong to him.
01:41The pleading shocked him but Harrison said he decided to act as if he never heard anything.
01:47Harrison Gwamnishu added that the suspect, he was the family member that raised the alarm that the ransom money wasn't complete, that, that was the reason the kidnappers only released the wife and refused to set free the husband.
02:00Stating clearly that everyone who participated in taking the money to the kidnappers affirmed that the kidnappers never counted the money.
02:08That even if the kidnappers had counted the money, he prepared the money specially by only scattering the tracking devices on the dummy Naira notes that looked like original Naira notes in a manner that made the whole money complete.
02:20The family member who delivered the ransom to the kidnappers and some of his gangs were arrested with guns in Ouchi by soldiers.
02:29The soldiers handed him over to Ouchi Area Command, Ouchi Area Command transferred him to Anti-Cultism Unit SCID Benin and along the side, an order came that the boy should be released.
02:41Other people with him were charged to court and sent to prison.
02:45Same boy was with us in Ouchi and knows our plans.
02:49I told the police my story, my statement is with the police.
02:53They did nothing.
02:55Continuing, Harrison Gwamnishu stated verbatim thus,
02:59Good afternoon, my name is Harrison Gwamnishu.
03:02While I was in custody in State CID, Benin, at the CP's office, CP was in that meeting, the Chief of Staff to the Governor was in that meeting,
03:12The CSO to the Governor, Chief Security Officer to the Governor was in that meeting,
03:17The Commissioner for Security and Public Safety was in that meeting,
03:20The Head of Investigative Team, was in that meeting,
03:23The family members were in that meeting,
03:25The wife of the man kidnapped was in that meeting,
03:28His brother was in that meeting and other parties were there.
03:31My lawyer was in that meeting and then a friend of mine who lives in Benin was also in that meeting.
03:37And the family pleaded,
03:39They said that nobody should ever post about this matter on social media.
03:43Until the matter is resolved, I accepted,
03:47When I left the police custody, I did not say anything about it.
03:51They have been the ones now going around telling people things that never existed.
03:56And they're now posting on social media,
03:59People are now changing, posting narratives and the rest of it.
04:03Now, number one,
04:05This guy you see on the screen,
04:07This guy,
04:08This is the family member that went to drop the money to the kidnappers.
04:12He was aware of the arrangement.
04:14The arrangement was that,
04:16Now, look at,
04:17When I was in Asaba,
04:19They said the kidnappers demanded for 50 million for both of them,
04:22The husband and wife.
04:24And they were able to raise 20 million naira.
04:27Now,
04:28The kidnappers now told them that with 20 million naira they will release only the woman.
04:33That was what they told me while I was in Asaba.
04:36Later,
04:37They said the kidnappers accepted to collect 20 million naira for the both of them.
04:42They pleaded that the wife is pregnant,
04:44Although the kidnappers were telling them that,
04:47That money would be for only the wife.
04:49Later they said the kidnappers accepted to collect 20 million naira.
04:54Why I was invited was not to go and give the kidnappers money.
04:58No,
04:59It was for me to fix something in the bag of money they are taking to the kidnappers.
05:03This is not what I am supposed to say on the social media space.
05:08But,
05:09Now,
05:10It is time for me to say it the way it is.
05:13So that anywhere it is going,
05:15People will know the true fact of the story.
05:18So that they will stop believing one sided story.
05:21And when I got into Ouchie,
05:23This same guy you see here,
05:25They brought the money to my hotel.
05:27I first of all went to their hotel.
05:30They were crowded,
05:31Young boys were there,
05:33They now came to my hotel.
05:35While in my hotel room,
05:37They left somebody,
05:38A doctor,
05:39Who is a brother to the woman.
05:41He was sitting there in my room.
05:43I did my job perfectly.
05:45The bag was sealed up for them to take it to the kidnappers in the forest.
05:49Now,
05:50Before they moved to the forest,
05:52The kidnappers called.
05:54And he answered the phone,
05:56Which was the last pick up,
05:57For them to give direction where they are coming.
06:00The man in the bush,
06:02The man with the still held in the bush,
06:04Was begging this guy.
06:05The doctor was there,
06:07The doctor,
06:08The brother to the woman,
06:09Was sitting down there.
06:11My driver was there and other people were sitting down there.
06:14The man in the bush was begging the brother,
06:17This one,
06:18Begging this guy.
06:19He said,
06:20Please,
06:21If I have wronged you before,
06:23Forgive me.
06:24If I have done something to you before,
06:27Forgive me.
06:28And he began to beg,
06:30Him.
06:31A beg,
06:32Now,
06:33Me and my wife,
06:34Are here.
06:35You know,
06:36My wife,
06:37A beg.
06:38If I have done you wrong before,
06:39I begged,
06:40Forgive me.
06:41I begged,
06:42I begged,
06:43He was begging this guy.
06:44Then,
06:45The phone hanged up.
06:47I asked him,
06:48I asked him,
06:49Why was your brother begging you?
06:51He said,
06:52I get previous transaction.
06:54I said,
06:55Hey,
06:56Okay,
06:57No problem.
06:58I just,
06:59Do as if it didn't even go in my head.
07:01Nothing happened.
07:02I just left it.
07:04So,
07:05They carried the money to the bush.
07:07And when they got to the bush,
07:09They said,
07:10The kidnappers did not count the money to know whether it is above 20 million naira or below 20 million naira.
07:16If they have counted that money,
07:18That money will be 20 million naira because what we did,
07:21What we did was what we are supposed to do.
07:24They only saw that the money was counted,
07:27But they did not count the money.
07:29It was this same guy,
07:31Thank god he was there with my driver,
07:33Who confirmed everything.
07:35It was this same guy that came out and raised alarm that it was what I did that made him to hold the guy.
07:41Now,
07:42Listen,
07:43Kidnappers,
07:44These kidnappers,
07:45We've monitored them for months,
07:47Both in Delta and in Edo states.
07:49Now,
07:50They don't count money,
07:52100,000,
07:53200,000,
07:54They count in bundles.
07:56So,
07:57What we did was,
07:58They wouldn't have even noticed anything at all.
08:01They wouldn't have noticed anything at all.
08:04We did our job perfectly well and they took the money there.
08:08The money was not counted.
08:10Now,
08:11Listen,
08:12Now it was not only this man they went to release and the wife.
08:15Another family they kidnapped,
08:17This family they kidnapped,
08:19This one they kidnapped.
08:21They kidnapped this man,
08:23The wife and the husband.
08:25But,
08:26Along the line,
08:27They released the woman and the child because the child was crying.
08:30The same family,
08:32This other family went also to pay ransom again to kidnappers too.
08:36And when they got there,
08:38The same kidnappers,
08:39When they got there,
08:40The kidnappers collected 20 million naira and they didn't release the man.
08:45So,
08:46Both this one and this one were taken back to the bush and the woman was released.
08:50That was what transpired.
08:52So,
08:53While I was in custody in Benin,
08:56I saw young people.
08:58They raided,
08:59They arrested young guys,
09:00Brought them to the cell.
09:02What happened,
09:03They said this boy here,
09:05This same person that paid ransom,
09:07They arrested him.
09:08He was arrested in Ouchie,
09:10Arrested them with guns,
09:12Not only him,
09:13Many of them.
09:14And suddenly,
09:16They released this guy,
09:17This same guy that went to pay this ransom,
09:20That the order came from the police that they should let him go.
09:24They released him,
09:25And I was in the cell with them.
09:27In fact,
09:28When they brought him to my cell,
09:30They quickly changed these people from my cell to another cell.
09:34Immediately,
09:35Because maybe they knew that those guys,
09:38They have,
09:39They know me.
09:40They changed them from my cell to another cell.
09:43I was surprised.
09:44Now,
09:45If you watch this video,
09:47You see what this boy is saying here.
09:49He said,
09:50Look at him,
09:51Celebrating when he was released.
09:53You like your freedom,
09:55Freedom is priceless.
09:57Yes,
09:58If you like me,
09:59I give you.
10:00No,
10:01But if you like me,
10:02I give you.
10:03At times for who?
10:05At times,
10:06I kill you.
10:07They did not charge this boy and other ones to court.
10:10This was the same guy who took the money to go and give the kidnappers.
10:14The same guy the brother in the bush was begging.
10:17That money was 20 million naira.
10:2020 million naira was in that bag.
10:2220 million naira.
10:2420 million naira.
10:26If the kidnappers counted that money,
10:28At that first stage,
10:30It would count 20 million naira.
10:32But the social media issues,
10:34They now increase now.
10:36They announced that the family should bring in some amount of money.
10:39So,
10:40My brothers,
10:41I did my best.
10:43I did my best.
10:44I didn't do anything wrong in that matter.
10:47I did everything possible.
10:49But there are things I would still say.
10:51How the money,
10:52Everything that happened,
10:53I would say it.
10:55Because if I say it,
10:57I think that ends my work too.
10:59I won't be doing anything for anybody again.
11:02But I have to clear my name.
11:04I have to clear my name.
11:06So,
11:07Those of you who destroy my name on the social media space,
11:11There is no problem.
11:12This narrative,
11:14They're selling to you.
11:15Go ahead with it.
11:16Go ahead with it.
11:18Tunde Ednut.
11:19I was bashing him,
11:20Yes.
11:21I messaged him.
11:22I said,
11:23Why do you stop posting?
11:25That VDM said he has something against me.
11:28And you stopped posting.
11:30He could not bring it up.
11:31Why do you stop posting?
11:33Post what?
11:34Just post it.
11:35Ask him questions.
11:37Where is the evidence you say you have for Nigerians?
11:40You are giving us 24 hours to confess.
11:43Where is the evidence?
11:45Good afternoon.
11:46My name is Aresin.
11:47I am no issue.
11:48While I was in custody,
11:50State CID,
11:51At the CP's office,
11:53CP was in that meeting.
11:55The chief of staff,
11:56The governor was in that meeting.
11:57The CSO to the governor,
11:59Chief security officer to the governor was in that meeting.
12:01The commissioner for security and public safety was in that meeting.
12:04The head of investigative team,
12:07The CSB Osage was in that meeting.
12:10The family members were in that meeting.
12:12The wife of the man kidnapped was in that meeting.
12:15The prisoner was in that meeting.
12:16The prisoner was in that meeting.
12:17The prisoner was in that meeting.
12:18And other parties were there.
12:19My lawyer,
12:21Bryce Tafavor,
12:22Was in that meeting.
12:23And then a friend,
12:24A friend of mine,
12:25Who lives in Benin,
12:28Was also in that meeting.
12:30And the family pleaded.
12:31They said,
12:32That nobody should ever post about this matter on social media until the matter is resolved.
12:41And I said,
12:42When I left the police custody,
12:44I have not seen anything about it.
12:47They have been the one now going around telling people things that never existed.
12:55And they are now posting social media.
12:57People are now changing, twisting narrative and the rest of them.
13:01Now,
13:02Number one.
13:03This guy you see on the screen.
13:05This guy.
13:06This is the family member that went to drop the money to the kidnappers.
13:09He was aware of the arrangement.
13:11The arrangement was that.
13:13Now look at.
13:14When I was in Asaba.
13:15They said the kidnappers demanded for 50 million for both of them.
13:18The husband and wife.
13:20And
13:22They were able to raise 20 million nera.
13:26And the kidnappers now told them that
13:28With 20 million nera they will release only the woman.
13:31That was what they told me.
13:33While I was in Asaba.
13:35Later they said the kidnappers accepted.
13:38To collect 20 million nera for the both of them.
13:41That they predicted that the wife is pregnant.
13:43Although the kidnappers were telling the other that
13:45That money would be for only the wife.
13:47Later they said the kidnappers accepted to collect 20 million nera.
13:51Why I was invited was not to go and give the kidnappers money.
13:54No.
13:55It was for me to.
13:57Facing something in the bag of money.
13:59They are taking to the kidnappers.
14:01This is not what I am supposed to say on the social media space.
14:03But.
14:04Man.
14:05It is time for me to.
14:06Make it.
14:07Say it the way it is.
14:08So that anywhere it is going.
14:10People will know the true fact of the story.
14:12So that they will stop.
14:13Believing one sided story.
14:15And when I got into Auchi.
14:17This same guy you see here.
14:19They brought the money into my hotel.
14:21I first went to the hotel.
14:22The young boys were there.
14:23They now came to my hotel.
14:24While in my hotel room.
14:25They left somebody.
14:26A doctor.
14:27Who is a brother to the woman.
14:28He was sitting there in my room.
14:29I did my job perfectly.
14:30The bag was sealed up.
14:31For them to take it to the kidnappers.
14:32In the forest.
14:33Now.
14:34Before.
14:35The bag was sealed up.
14:36The bag was sealed up.
14:37For them to take it to the kidnappers.
14:38In the forest.
14:39Now.
14:40Before.
14:41They moved to the forest.
14:42The kidnappers called.
14:43And he answered the phone.
14:45Which was the last picker.
14:46For them to give direction.
14:47Where they are coming.
14:48The man in the bush.
14:50The man still held in the bush.
14:51Was begging this guy.
14:53If the doctor would be true.
14:55The doctor was there.
14:56The doctor.
14:57The brother to the woman.
14:58Was sitting down there.
14:59My driver was there.
15:00And other people were sitting down there.
15:02The man in the bush.
15:03The man in the bush.
15:04Was begging the brother.
15:05This one.
15:06Begging this guy.
15:07He said.
15:08Please.
15:09If I have wronged you before.
15:10Forgive me.
15:11If I have done something to you before.
15:12Forgive me.
15:13And then they beg you.
15:14I beg.
15:15Now me and my wife.
15:16They here.
15:17You know see my wife.
15:18I beg.
15:19If I don't do you wrong before.
15:20I beg.
15:21Forgive me.
15:22I beg.
15:23I beg.
15:24He was begging this guy.
15:25Then.
15:26The phone hanged up.
15:27And I asked him.
15:28I asked him.
15:29Why was your brother begging you?
15:31He said.
15:32Then get.
15:33Previous transaction.
15:34I said.
15:35I said.
15:36Okay.
15:37No problem.
15:38I just.
15:39It didn't even go my head.
15:40With nothing.
15:41I just left it.
15:42So they carried the money.
15:43To the bush.
15:44They said.
15:45The kidnappers.
15:46Did not count the money.
15:48To know whether.
15:49It is above.
15:5020 million nera.
15:51Or below 20 million nera.
15:53If they have counted that money.
15:55That money will be 20 million nera.
15:57Because.
15:58What we did.
15:59What we did.
16:00Was what.
16:01We are supposed to do.
16:02Now.
16:03They don't count.
16:04They only saw that the money was cut out.
16:06But they did not count the money.
16:07It was this same guy.
16:09I did.
16:10Thank God he was there with my driver.
16:11Who confirmed everything.
16:12It was the same guy that came out and raised a land.
16:15That it was what I did.
16:17That made them to help the guy.
16:19Now.
16:20Listen.
16:21Kidnappers.
16:22These kidnappers.
16:24We monitor them for moons.
16:27Both in Delta and in those states.
16:29Now.
16:30They don't count money.
16:32Hundred thousand.
16:33Two hundred.
16:34They count in bundles.
16:35So.
16:36What we did.
16:37Was.
16:38They wouldn't have even noticed.
16:39Anything at all.
16:40They wouldn't have noticed anything at all.
16:41We did our job perfectly well.
16:42And they took the money there.
16:43The money was not counted.
16:44Now.
16:45Listen.
16:46Now.
16:47It was not only this man they went to release you.
16:48And the wife.
16:49And that family they kidnapped.
16:50This family they kidnapped.
16:51This family they kidnapped.
16:52This one they kidnapped.
16:53They kidnapped.
16:54This man.
16:55This man.
16:56They kidnapped.
16:57This man.
16:58They kidnapped this man.
16:59The wife and the.
17:00And the husband.
17:01But along the line.
17:02They released the.
17:03The woman.
17:04And the child.
17:05Because the child.
17:06Was crying.
17:07The same family.
17:08This father family went also.
17:09To parents from again.
17:10To kidnappers too.
17:11And when they got there.
17:12The same kidnappers.
17:13When they got there.
17:14The kidnappers.
17:15And they don't release the man.
17:17So.
17:18This one.
17:19And this one.
17:20Were taken back to the bush.
17:21And the woman was released.
17:23That was what transpired.
17:25So.
17:26When I was in custody.
17:27In Benin.
17:28I saw young people.
17:29They raided.
17:30They arrested.
17:31Strong guys.
17:32Brought them to the cell.
17:33What happened.
17:34They said.
17:35This poor here.
17:36This same person.
17:37That paid ransom.
17:38They arrested him.
17:39He was arrested.
17:40In Au Chi.
17:41Arrested them with gun.
17:42Not only him.
17:43Many of them.
17:44And suddenly.
17:45They released this guy.
17:46This same guy.
17:47That went to pay.
17:48This ransom.
17:49That order came from the police.
17:50That they should let him go.
17:51They released him.
17:52And I was in the cell with them.
17:53In fact.
17:54When they brought them to my cell.
17:55The same family.
17:56This other family went also.
17:57They quickly changed.
17:58These people from my cell.
17:59To another cell.
18:00Immediately.
18:01Because maybe they knew that.
18:02Those guys.
18:03They have.
18:04They know me.
18:05They changed them from my cell.
18:06To another cell.
18:07I was surprised.
18:09Now.
18:10If you watch this video.
18:11You see what this boy is saying here.
18:12He said.
18:13Look at him.
18:14Celebrate him.
18:15When he goes to this.
18:16You would like your freedom.
18:17Freedom is priceless.
18:18He will be like.
18:19Nene.
18:32Do not charge this boy.
18:34Another one for cops.
18:35We did not charge this boy and other ones to cut.
18:40This was the same guy who took the money to go and give the kidnappers.
18:43The same guy the brother in the bush was begging.
18:48That money was 20 million naira.
18:5120 million naira was in that bag.
18:5520 million naira.
18:5720 million naira.
18:58If the kidnappers counted that money, at that first stage it would become 20 million naira.
19:04But the social media issues, they now increase the rents that the family should bring in to some amount of money.
19:12So my brothers, I did my best.
19:14I did my best.
19:16I didn't do anything wrong in that matter.
19:19I did everything possible.
19:21But there are things I will still say.
19:24How the money, everything that happened, I will say it.
19:29Because if I say it, I think that ends my work too.
19:32I won't be doing anything for anybody again.
19:34But I have to claim my name.
19:36I have to claim my name.
19:38For those of you destroying my name on the social media space, there is no problem.
19:42This is narrative, they are selling to you.
19:44Go ahead with it.
19:46Go ahead with it.
19:47June did not.
19:48I was bashing him.
19:49Yes.
19:50I was bashing him.
19:51I said, why did you stop posting?
19:53That's it.
19:54That VDM said you have something against me.
19:56And you stopped posting.
19:57You could not bring it up.
19:58Why did you stop posting?
19:59Post words.
20:00Just post it.
20:01Ask him questions.
20:02Where is the evidence you said you have for Nigerians?
20:05That even I have seen the power to confess.
20:08Where is the evidence?
20:09What do you do?
20:10Posters who are on their day, bringing you the news in a more digital way.