By Emmanuel Udom
The Lagos state police command on
Wednesday paraded two university graduates arrested in connection with the
kidnap of some children at various parts of Lagos.
Speaking during the parade, Damasus Ozoani, deputy
police public relations officer for the command said that the suspects were
arrested based on information received by police officers from Igando police
station
According to Ozoani, on July 9, this year, the
station received information that the suspects were living at 12, Olowojeunjeje
Street, Igando, Lagos.
Based on the information, the divisional police
officer of the station stormed the house and arrested one Benjamin Faniran
Olalekan.
The case was later transferred to the state
anti-robbery squad and the suspect on being drilled by police detectives,
confessed that one Gbenga Sholaja and Samson Shomorin, who normally shuttle
between Alagbado area of Lagos and Owode Ijako in Ogun state
were members of the kidnapping gang.
Abba Kyari, a superintendent of police and
officer-in-charge of SARS on the strength of the confession led a team of
operatives to Alagbado and Owode, where the kidnappers were arrested on
September 29, 2013.
The Lagos police deputy spokesman further said that
the suspects confessed to kidnapping three children at Omole Phase 1, Kola in
Alagbado and the last one in Owode Ijako, Ogun state.
Speaking however with our correspondent, Olalekan
Fanisan lamented that he was a jail bird, who have been jailed on a number of
occasions in connection with kidnapping of prominent persons for ransom.
But, Gbenga Sholaja, 2008 graduate of accountancy
from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun state, lamented amidst
sobbing that in the first operation, N100,000 was collected as ransom, while
his share was a mere N50,000.
In the second and third operations, N160, 000 and
N60, 000 respectively was collected while his n total share was N68, 000.
In a related development, one Idowu Ajibola was also
arrested by police detectives from Area E police command in Festac, Lagos for
allegedly kidnapping a 400-level business administration student of Lagos state
university.
Ajibola was arrested on September 19, this
year, where he led police detectives from Festac police station to a
blackspot in Shagamu, Ogun state, where the victim, identify as Ebun Idowu,
whom police claimed to be the mother of the abductor was also arrested.
According to the police, the suspected
kidnapper camped the victim at Oshogbo in Osun state for six months, Bariga in
Lagos for six months and Shagamu in Ogun state for over two years.
Ajibola, a primary school drop-out who hails from
Abeokuta in Ogun state confessed that he forcefully impregnated the
victim, who subsequently bore him a disabled baby girl for him, while in
captivity, police told journalists.
However, Mr & Mrs Brown, parents of the victim
were in tears, while explaining the psychological trauma they passed through
for three years, saying that they visited churches, mosques, hospital, mortuary
and police stations in search of their daughter.
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