The operatives
of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command over the weekend
arrested three suspected kidnappers fleeing from Ibadan in Lagos after
collecting N3 million ransom.
The
kidnappers, Adekunle Funsho (31), Charles Ezeilo (32) and Obioha Nnaji were
apprehended in Abule Egba Lagos after kidnapping a lady and collecting N3
million ransom.
The kidnappers
had, after collecting the ransom fled to Lagos.
The police in
Ibadan after discovering that the kidnappers were heading to Lagos with the
victim’s Toyota Highlander had radioed Lagos for assistance.
RRS officials
on receiving the radio signal tracked the vehicle to Fela Shrine in Ikeja, from
where the alleged suspects further moved the vehicle to a compound somewhere
Abule Egba, Lagos.
It was there
that the officers arrested a suspect before recovering the Toyota Highlander
2005 model with the registration number LND 954 EE.
The first
suspect assisted the police in the arrest of another suspect who was later
apprehended in Fela's Shrine in Ikeja while another suspect simply identified
as Theophilus is on the run.
According to
one of the suspects, Adekunle Funsho, a fashion designer around Felele, Ibadan,
where it was believed the kidnapping took place,
“Theophilus
handed over the car to me in Ibadan and told me to look for a buyer for the
car…. I brought the car to Lagos because I know that I would get a buyer
quickly for the car. The instruction from him was that I sell the Highlander at
N800, 000:00.
He stated
further,
“I got a buyer
In Ondo State. He has bought a car from me before, a fairly clean Toyota
Corolla. He bought it N550,000:00. I took the car to him on Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway, where he paid me before moving the car away…. Charles is my friend
of over 5 years. We met at Redeemed Church, Ogba, where I was a chorister. I
gave him the car to help me warehouse it for me to get a buyer. He took the car
from me at Fela Shrine to his house in Abule Egba.”
The case has
been taken up by Anti-kidnapping team, Oyo State Police Command, for further
investigations.
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