The Lagos
Police Command says it has arrested three hoodlums in the Agbowa area of the
state for allegedly snatching a suspected kidnapper from police operatives.
The fleeing
suspected kidnapper had led a team of policemen attached to the anti-kidnapping
squad of the command to the community in December to conduct a search on his
apartment when some youths, suspected to be his boys, attacked the policemen
openly.
The youth,
according to Punch, removed a pair of handcuffs on the suspect’s hands, freed
him and subsequently set ablaze a police patrol van that brought the suspect
and the team to the area.
Commissioner
of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said three policemen were seriously injured in the
attack.
He, however,
said the command would not want to disclose the identities of the suspects in
order not to thwart efforts at arresting other fleeing hoodlums.
Owoseni said,
“Some criminal elements under the guise of community youths attacked the police
team, cut the handcuffs used to chain the suspect and librated him. Three of
the operatives were injured while the police vehicle used by the team was
burnt. A policeman is still in a hospital.
“Three of
those who perpetrated the act have been arrested, but we don’t want to reveal
their identities now in order not to jeopardize our investigation.”
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