The Nigerian police said they have foiled a
plan by some suspected kidnappers to abduct
a popular businessman, Femi Otedola.
The police in a statement released on
Wednesday by its spokesman, Don Awunah,
said they arrested three members of a
notorious gang which had planned to abduct
Mr. Otedola, and demand N1 billion to
release him.
The police said the suspects were arrested on
June 23 through coordinated intelligence
gathering and deployment of technical
investigative tools that spanned several
weeks.
The police gave the name of the principal
suspect as Ikechukwu Daniel, a 28 years old
indigene of Imo State said to have been
rusticated from Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria in 2010 because of cult related
activities.
Mr. Daniel, said to have mastery of computer
applications, confessed to his past criminal
exploits in the south west of the country, the
police said.
The police also mentioned a serving officer of
the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps,
NSCDC, Adeyemi Kayode, as being among the
arrested suspects.
Mr. Kayode, 29, until his arrest, was serving
as a Personal Assistant to the Commandant,
NSCDC in the Oyo State Command, the police
said.
“The suspect (Mr. Kayode) took undue
advantage of his office to obtain the GSM
number and location of their would-be
victim. He hatched the plan on how to kidnap
the business magnate to make a demand of
one billion naira ransom.”
The police said the third suspect, Ayodele
Temitayo, from Ibadan, Oyo State, who is the
marksman and armourer of the gang, claimed
to have been dismissed in 2015 from 213
Battalion Maiduguri of Nigeria Army as a
Private.
“All the suspects made confessional
statements revealing that they had
successfully carried out several high profile
kidnappings and two AK47 rifles loaded with
live ammunition were recovered from them,”
the statement said.
No comments:
Post a Comment