Operatives of Rapid
Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command over the weekend
arrested Suleiman Seidu, 33, for attempting to kidnap a two year-old boy,
Chimdi
Udwu, in Owode area of Ogun State.
The Decoy Team of
the squad got a hint about a kidnap attempt on a little boy by one of the two
persons who the prime suspect had contracted to perpetrate the crime.
Upon gathering
further intelligence, a member of the RRS Decoy Team posed as a lady that the
kidnapper sought to help give the child a good care.
RRS source disclosed
that for more than two weeks while the kidnapping took shape, the investigator,
pretending as an accomplice, was exchanging information with prime suspect.
It was revealed that
the suspect, assured the accomplice that he has gotten motorcycle to use in
kidnapping the boy, stressing that the ransom was N10 million, which the father
of the parents of the boy would be able to afford as a landlord and dealer in
electrical appliances.
It was learnt that
when the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, was informed of the
jurisdictional challenge of arresting the kidnapped suspect in Ogun State. The
CP ordered the Decoy team to proceed assuring them he would contact his
colleague in Ogun, adding that there was no jurisdiction in crime.
Source in RRS
disclosed that one of the kidnapping suspect was shocked by the insistence of
the prime suspect to kidnap the little boy and request for N10 Million ransom.
He continued: “I
knew it was going to boomerang if I conceal the information and not inform the
police…. Then, I called one of my friends who resides in Lagos and explained
the whole idea of kidnap attempt on an innocent boy by someone in my
neighbourhood, and the person also solicited me to join him to commit the
crime…. It was this my friend that told me to come to Lagos to inform the RRS,
which I eventually came the following day to report the case at its
headquarters in Lagos,” the informant was quoted as saying.
The source added that
the suspect had successfully kidnapped two persons in Kogi State where he
collected huge ransoms from their families.
Upon his arrival at
the RRS’ Headquarters in Lagos, the suspect who confessed to the crime said
that he wanted to kidnap the young boy because his biological mother is
seriously ill and looking for money by all means to pay her hospital bill.
In his confessional
statement, he revealed, “I have been on the trail of that young boy and her
parents for quite a while now. I conceived the idea to kidnap him when I was
left with no option than to commit the crime because my mother is very ill at
the moment…. I wanted to demand for N10 Million ransom but if his parents
cannot afford the whole at least I was expecting N3 Million at the end of the
day…. Although, I just relocated to that area and I am not that familiar with
the nooks and crannies of that area very well…. Then, I thought of contracting
someone who knew the environment very well and would make the job easy for me.”
Interrogating him
how he would carry out the kidnapping, the Kogi State born suspect explained,
“I had been watching the movements of his parents for about two weeks. I
discovered that whenever he was taking the boy to school every day, when the
man drives out…. He would alight from the car to lock the gate because they
don’t have a gate keeper in their house. Also he takes him to school between
7:00 a.m and 8:00 a.m…. What I devised was to kidnap the boy whenever the
driver alights from the car to close the gate, escape on a waiting bike….
Although, I live in a room and parlour apartment, I had planned to keep him
with me in my house to be demanding and threatening his parent to bring my
expected ransom.”
The father of the
child, Udwu, who had no inkling of the looming woe, thanked the Policemen for
carrying out the intelligence report successfully which led to the arrest of
the kidnap suspect.
Reacting to the
incidence, the Police Public Relations Officer of Lagos State, Superintendent
of Police, Dolapo Badmus, said that the suspect would be charged to court upon
completion of the Police investigation.
The suspect has been
transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, for
further investigation.
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