Policemen in Lagos State have arrested members of a nine-man gang of kidnappers who allegedly were behind the kidnap of the Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Authority, Kehinde Bamgbetan.
The gang was also said to be behind the kidnapping of a sitting High Court Judge and many other notable individuals within and outside the Lagos metropolis.
It was gathered that upon receiving information on the kidnappers’ hideout somewhere in Agbara area of Ogun State, a team of SARS men, led by the Officer-in-Charge, Abba Kyari, a Superintendent of Police, went to the area and laid ambush for the kidnappers in the bush around their hideout.
The ambush paid off around 3am on June 24, 2013 after 72 hours.
The kidnappers appeared in a vehicle with a victim they just kidnapped, an Indian identified as Vivek Changrani.
The white man was kidnapped in Ikoyi, Lagos State.
It was said that due to the victim inside the vehicle with the kidnappers, the SARS team could not open fire but waited till the kidnappers had entered into the building used as their hideout before rounding them up.
According to Kyari, the kidnappers opened fire on the team when they saw SARS operatives and a heavy gun battle ensued between the kidnappers and SARS operative, which led to the killing of seven of the kidnappers while the remaining two, Ogbonna Emenike, 27 and Uchenna Nwanyu, 25, were arrested.
Four AK 47 rifles; 25, AK 47 magazines; over 1,000 AK 47 Ammunitions; Army uniforms; and a Honda CRV jeep with registration number ABC 106 AE and a Nissan Pathfinder with registration number AGL 730 AZ, said to be their operational vehicles, and uncountable charms were recovered from the hideout.
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