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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Manko disclosed that the suspected kidnappers were arrested by operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, when they wanted to abduct a victim.
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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.
Kidnapping must be discouraged in this country because it is ruining us. All kidnappers should be wiped off
The police are doing a good job so far though so I kudos their effort. But we obviously need more from them.