Lagos police smash kidnap syndicate, arrest 6



BY EVELYN USMAN AND UJU MBANUSI

LAGOS — The Lagos State Police Command, yesterday, said it had smashed a kidnap syndicate which recently relocated to Lagos from the eastern part of the country and arrested six suspected members of the gang.

Also, the command said investigation into the kidnap and subsequent release of the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area Chairman, Mr Kehinde Bamigbetan, showed that some of his abductors had fled to Ghana.

According to the command, the suspects confessed during interrogation to have one of their hideouts somewhere around Ibeju-Lekki, where they have successfully kidnapped four persons.


The suspects and recovered weapons
The Lagos State Police Command boss, Mr Umar Manko, who briefed newsmen on the circumstances that led to the suspects’ arrest, said an AK -SZ riffle with registration number 6090 was recovered when their Ikorodu hideout was searched.

Manko disclosed that the suspected kidnappers were arrested by operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, when they wanted to abduct a victim.

One of them whose identity he gave as Solomon Eze, popularly known as Pastor, was arrested in the densely populated Ajegunle area of Lagos on a tip off., adding that his confessional statement led to the arrest of five others, Ikechukwu Chedom, Sunday James, Obinna Egbugha, Christian Ezinkwo and Emmanuel Iloakazi, in Surulere area of Lagos, where other ammunition were recovered.

We were after exotic car owners—Suspect

The suspects told journalists at the command headquarters where they were paraded that their targets were owners of exotic cars.

According to one of them, Sunday James: “This gang was formed January this year after one of us, Victor Emmanuel, rented an apartment in Ibeju-Lekki where we would be keeping our victims.

But operations started proper in February. Since we started, we have kidnapped four persons.

The first person we kidnapped fetched us N1 million. Victor, owner of the apartment where the victim was kept got, N200,000 while the rest of us shared the balance of N800,000, of which I got N100,000.

“The second victim fetched us N1.8 million. We bought a Sport Utility Vehicle with which to convey our victims for N1.5 million and shared the balance of N300,000. Of that amount, I got N75,000.”

On how they usually abduct their victims, James said: “Whenever we are driving on the road and see any exotic car, we would intercept and order its owner to get down and force him into our vehicle.

“We usually abandon our targets vehicles because we do not need them. We decided to leave their vehicles because some of them have car trackers that could easily give us out.”

On whether his gang was responsible for the kidnap of the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area boss, Mr Kehinde Bamgbetan, he said: “Since we started, we have not kidnapped any influential person or politician.”

The suspects, according to the command boss, would be charged to court, adding that effort was still on to get Bamigbetan’s kidnappers.

Bamigbetan’s abductors relocate to Ghana

Investigations, according to him, showed that some of Bamigbetan’s abductors had relocated to Ghana, adding that one of them passed on recently at an undisclosed hospital, after he jumped from a three-storey hotel building when operatives of SARS stormed the place.

The deceased identified simply as Soldier, was reportedly in the company of his girlfriend, when he took the fatal jump.

But Manko did not state whether he was a military man or not. He simply stated that investigation was still ongoing.
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This is a welcome development. Right step in the right direction.

Seems i will need to port back to my grandpa's volkswagen since exotic cars attract these SOBs!

Nigeria's wealthy class now are faced with a dire predicament : Whether to cruise around in expensive cars so as to flaunt their wealth, and thereby attract kidnapper gangs who routinely STARVE their captives to death, OR, to alternatively drive around in raggedy old cars, and risk getting stranded on the highway when the old clunkers inevitably break down.

For better or worse, a class war has ensued in Nigeria, in which the poor hunt down the rich, and impassively watch them starve to death in chains, if their relatives don't cough up big money fast. This totally unprecedented practice of Nigerian kidnappers, to DELIBERATELY starve their captives to death, hints at a cold, calculating hatred for the rich, whereby kidnappers ENJOY torturing the well-fed, as final vengeance for the hunger that initially forced those kidnappers into crime, and hardened their hearts to the suffering of others.

When in Nigeria, I drive while HEAVILY ARMED, in an old car that is as brutally fast as it is ugly. Thank you Jeeeesus, and God help any muffuguh that tries to bring my jalopy to a stop.

smash?


nah tomatoes?

Where is Dayokanu and Bluetooth? Can someone please wake them up? Food Is Ready Ooo

Good 4 dm, any1 dat disturb d peace of d country must b dealt with.

HahA all those hidden posts u niggaz attacking my cousins down where d sun rises aleady

May God continue to save us from all evils,and God should be revealing all evil people hide_out.

gud job, keep on d hardwork. N to think dat some nairalanders are arguing abt r safe naija is with all dis kidnaping everyday.

i think dose kidnappers will b needing AMNESTY cwiouzly speaking. :Di think dose kidnappers will b needing AMNESTY cwiouzly speaking.

why post is hidden

Is Nigeria Really Unsafe?

Good job

End of the road for them I guess?

nice jop npf

why are some post hidden na, we need to read peoples opinion na...

Well done LAPolice.

Na so dem kidnap one bulkanizer o for benin dem come demand 700k as ransom from the wife who is akara seller, o boy the woman say if you sell everything wey dem get you no fit raise 100k sef, the husband was kept in one uncompleted building by the kidnapper and the man just dey chop their food, na so dem ask the wife how much she get for hand now, she say na only 10k naso dem realease the bulkanizer after one week after collecting the 10k at all at all na him bad pass

As I just see de name of the kidnappers, na im I just begin dey laugh alone for office.
People around don dey see me as mad man

#runs out of the thread b4 the tribal warlords appear#

One fantastic burst of energy according to Achebe!
hear him here: “Although the Yoruba had a huge historical and geographical head start, the Igbo wiped out their handicap in one fantastic burst of energy in the twenty years between 1930 and 1950.”

mc~evans:
Where is Dayokanu and Bluetooth? Can someone please wake them up? Food Is Ready Ooo

hehe, craze man

The kidnappers have been kidnapped!!
These are the ones that do not pay remittance to the police
They would soon "travel' them

i go comment when i wake up