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  • Ogun Police arrest ‘kidnapper’ of minor

    Ogun Police arrest ‘kidnapper’ of minor

    A suspected kidnapper of a four-year-old schoolboy has been arrested by policemen in Ogun State.

    Wale Ogunbadejo was arrested last Friday for kidnapping Attairu Amisu, a pupil of Abdul Rahman Academy Sabo, Obalende Ijebu-Ode, at the school premises.

    The kidnappers had gone to the school pretending to be a relative sent by his parents to pick him up. It was gathered that the school authorities handed over the boy to the purported relative, only for the child’s mother to come minutes later for the child.

    Having successfully kidnapped the minor, the criminals, it was learnt, contacted his family and demanded N5million ransom.

    It was gathered that the family immediately reported the case at the police station and a manhunt for the suspects was initiated.

    According to the spokesman for the Ogun State command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), the suspect was arrested in his hideout and the child rescued unhurt.

    He said: “The Commissioner of Police, (CP) Ahmed Iliyasu dispatched anti-kidnapping team with a matching order to rescue the boy unhurt. The team swung into action and their efforts paid off on Friday when the hideout of the gang was invaded and one Wale Ogunbadejo, their kingpin, was arrested. The boy was rescued unhurt.

    “The victim has been re-united with his family while the suspect is undergoing interrogation; serious manhunt has been lunched for the fleeing members of the gang.”

  • Delta: Police kill suspected kidnapper in shootout

    Delta: Police kill suspected kidnapper in shootout

    The Delta State Police Command said it shot dead a suspected kidnapper in gun duel with a four armed gang.

    Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Celestina Kalu who confirmed the incident Wednesday in Asaba said the hoodlums invaded the house of its victim Joseph Otemewo of Ogini Road Oghara, and kidnapped his wife and took her away to unknown destination in her Lexus SUV with registration number GRA 911 KH.

    According to her, “the police with the assistance of local vigilante went on their trail as the abductors called for ransom. In the process of exchange of fire between the hoodlums and policemen, one God’stime (surname unknown) was shot and arrested in their hideout at Ologbo bush while two others escaped.”

    Continuing, “The woman was rescued unhurt. However, the suspect died on the way to the hospital. Items recovered from the suspect included one locally made pistol with one cartridge and handset robbed from the victim.

    “Meanwhile, investigation has been intensified to track down the fleeing hoodlums who were said to have driven the stolen vehicle towards Benin in Edo State.”

    Similarly, Kalu said a seven-year old girl identified as Gift James who is a daughter of a police officer attached to the command has been rescued unhurt from her kidnappers.

    The victim was rescued within hours of her kidnap at Onicha-Olona in Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state when she was going on an errand.

    The kidnappers operating in a black Nissan Terra SUV with registration number DDT 012 02 were given a hot chase by operatives of Dragon patrol team on patrol along Benin/Asaba expressway.

    The operatives who had received information about the kidnap chased the hoodlums towards Issele-Azagba where the kidnappers diverted to a feeder road, abandoned their vehicle/victim and escaped.

    Kalu said the abandoned vehicle was recovered, while the victim has been re-united with her parents, adding that efforts to track down the fleeing hoodlums have been intensified.

  • Suspected kidnapper beaten, stripped

    A mob yesterday beat up a woman for alleged attempted abduction of a child at Owode Onirin near Ikorodu, Lagos.

    The woman, who was stripped and almost set ablaze, was alleged to have attempted to kidnap a pupil.

    It was alleged that children have been missing in the neighbourhood for about a month, the last being a pupil of Wisdom School, who was kidnapped not far from the school.

    The woman bled from the beating and allegedly confessed that she sold the last child she stole at Ilorin, the Kwara state capital.

    On hearing that, the crowd, it was gathered brought out fuel and tyres to set the suspect ablaze, but some policemen stopped them.

    The police team was attacked while trying to rescue the woman; its patrol van’s windscreen was allegedly shattered.

    The crowd moved to the Owode Onirin police station, in anger, threatening to set it on fire.

    To deter them, an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) and several police vehicles were stationed on the road heading to the station.

    RRS Commander Olatunji Disu, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), and the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) for Owode Onirin, Alao Segun, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) were on ground to prevent the attack.

  • Angry mob lynch suspected kidnapper in Lagos

    Angry mob lynch suspected kidnapper in Lagos

    A man suspected to be a kidnapper has been lynched by an angry mob in Lagos.

    Although the incident occurred at Coker bus stop, Orile Iganmu on Tuesday morning, the man who was beaten to a pulp died Wednesday.

    It was learnt that the mob descended on the man after he was found with two school children who were crying.

    Although no one could produce the children he allegedly abducted, the crowd stripped the man naked, hitting him with stones and sticks.

    Having beaten the man to comma with his blood littering the ground, the crowd in a bit to set him ablaze, hung a tyre round his neck, while others took horrid photographs of the helpless man.

    However, some passersby who disliked what was happening contacted the police and a team was sent to rescue the man.

    The unconscious man was rushed to the hospital, The Nation learnt but he eventually passed on.

    An eyewitness who posted some of the obscene pictures on social media stated that the man was almost dead when the police got to the scene.

    “He was unconscious. He was terribly beaten. They even scattered his head. The mob claimed that the man kidnapped two school children. No one knows the truth.

    “I did not see any school kid around and so I can’t say if the man was a kidnapper. They were about to burn him when the police came and rescued him.

    “He was rushed to the hospital but I heard that he died this morning (Wednesday),” said the source who gave his name as Blinkz Mick.

    When contacted, the state command’s spokesman, Joseph Offor, a DSP, condemned the act of lawlessness displayed by the mob.

    He stated that the man was not a kidnapper, adding that no one has come forward to say it was their children he attempted to abduct.

    “Yes the man died in the hospital Wednesday. It is very unfortunate the way people take laws into their hands. The police could not identify the man because he was unconscious when he was rescued from the mob.

    “They claimed he was a kidnapper but no one saw him with any hostage. No one has also come forward to claim he kidnapped their child.
    “Investigation is ongoing in the matter and we will ensure that all those who participated in that man’s unfortunate death are brought to justice,” said Offor.

  • Suspected kidnapper mentally unstable, says husband

    The eldest of two women arrested by the police on Monday for alleged kidnapping, Eno Effiong, is suspected to have mental disorder, it emerged yesterday.

    The Nation learnt that her husband and father of the three children she was suspected to have kidnapped, Effiong, was located by officials  of the Railway Police Command at the Air Force Base, Ikeja on Monday night.

    His location confirmed the address given by their four-year-old daughter, Happiness Effiong, who insisted that the woman was not her mother and that her home was at the Air Force Base.

    Policemen were dispatched on Monday evening to trace all the addresses given by the woman and the infant, before the man was located.

    Eno, alongside her teenage sister, were arrested after passengers of a Bus Rapid Transport (BRT)  vehicle suspected she must have stolen the kids she had with her.

    The passengers’ suspicion was sequel to the continuous cry of a four-month-old baby (one of the three ). Eno refused to breastfeed her.

    Worried that she turned down pleas to breastfeed the baby and could not pet her, Eno was handed over to the police at Iddo.

    At the station, Happiness who gave the second girl’s name as Pateince Effiong, two years, denied severally that Eno was her mother.

    The child’s denial as well as the inconsistencies in the story of the woman and the teenager, prompted detectives to trace all addresses mentioned by the parties.

    A police source told The Nation that Effiong had been located and that he did not know that his ‘sick’ wife took the children away.

    He said: “The man was brought to the command and the little girl  identified him as her father, Effiong. He was the one who told us that the woman has psychiatric problem and had been kept at a mental home.

    “They live at the Air Force Base. The husband said he did not know that the woman had taken the kids away and he did not also know where they were going.”

    There were no comments from the police.