Three suspected kidnappers who abducted a female Sergeant, simply identified as Bola, in Ogun State and a lawyer in Agbowa area of Lagos State in February have been arrested.
The suspects – Mimo Blessing 20; Aboy Feku 23; and Yola Samuel 30 – were arrested by the anti-kidnapping unit of the Lagos State Police Command while returning from an errand after collecting their share of the N5 million ransom collected from the lawyer’s family.
Parading the suspects before newsmen at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja, the Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, stated that the suspects were arrested by operatives of the command during a routine patrol of the area.
Owoseni said: “Based on the numerous kidnapping activities that have been recorded in the axis for some time, the anti-kidnapping unit of the command have been on patrol of the area on daily basis.
“The operation yielded result with the arrest of two suspects and their bike man who were on their way to pick up ransom collected from family of a victim around 6am.”
Fekun told newsmen that the kidnapped female Sergeant was waylaid by his gang at Omu-Ijebu, while she was on her way to Ketu Police Division, where she works.
He said: “The police woman was inside a bus that we ambushed at Omu-Ijebu.
“We kidnapped her and five other people who were taken to our camp at Molajoye for ransom.
“We were paid N200,000 by the family of the female police.
“I was not among those that went for the operation.
“I only follow them to kidnap the lawyer at Igbodu farm and I was given N250,000 from the N5 million paid by the family of the lawyer.”
Blessing said he was just a cook at the camp and his responsibility is to take care of kidnapped victims.
He said: “I came to the camp the day the lawyer was kidnapped.
“I don’t follow them the operations where people are kidnapped.
“A day after receiving the N5 million ransom paid by the family of the kidnapped lawyer, me, Aboy and our bike man, Samuel, were accosted by police on the road.
“During the police search, weapons and a lot of cash were recovered from us while our gang leader, Tallest, and others escaped.”
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