Six kidnappers in police net after collecting ransom, murdering victim
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By Olusola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta)
NIGERIA: MEN of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), Ogun State, have apprehended six kidnappers who collected a ransom and thereafter killed the man they abducted.
GatewayMail gathered that the suspects had lured the victim, Femi Olatunji, a Quatity Surveyor and father of one from his residence in Ogun State, to Igbokoda in Ondo State and murdered him after collecting ransom from the deceased person’s family.
The Ogun State Police Commissioner, Ahmed Iliyasu, gave the names of suspects as Fademi Henry, Lebile Olatunji, Ehuwa Oririe, Olotu Tosin, Oluwole Ohunayo and Peter Omogbemi Richard, whose ages are between 20 and 24.
The Commissioner said that the gang members wooed Olatunji to Igbokoda last May 12 through sustained telephone interactions.
According to him, after his arrival in the town by evening, Olatunji, who is from Idanre in Ondo State, was received by Fademi Henry, the ringleader.
Ilyasu while parading the suspects on Sunday said that Fademi took the victim to Holy Trinity African Primary School, Igbokoda, where his accomplices were already hiding and waiting for the victim.
He added that the gang members gathered and tied the victim’s hands and feet, robbed him of his Pathfinder Jeep, N20, 000, Gionee handset and ATM card with which they withdrew the remaining N30, 000 in the account.
The police boss said that the gang, who felt displeased with the cash they realised from the victim, made contact with his family members and compelled them to pay money into the bank account of one of them.
The Commissioner said that despite the money received, the kidnappers later killed the victim and threw his remains into the river behind the Holy Trinity African Primary School in Igbokoda.
Iliyasu said that the gang members were later pursued after Olatunji’s family members reported the matter to the police, adding that after painstaking intelligence gathering, the FSARS identified the suspects’ den in Igbokoda, invaded it and arrested six of them after a gun duel.
The Commissioner of Police described the suspects as a “gang of inhuman beings that unleash terror and pains on people.”
He further explained: “Operatives of the FSARS received an information about a notorious kidnap gang who had earlier kidnapped one Femi Olatunji on the 12 of May, 2017, and based on the information, their hideout at the Igbokoda area of Ondo State was stormed by men of FSARS.”
“Consequently, the hoodlums (kidnappers) engaged the FSARS in a gun duel which lasted for about two hours,” Iliyasu said, adding: “They later succumbed to the superior fire power of the FSARS operatives and six members of the gang were arrested.”
The Commissioner further said: “Investigation revealed that they collected
some amount of money from the family of the victim, but instead of them to release him, they killed him and dumped his corpse in a river behind Holy Trinity African Primary School, Igbokoda. The corpse has been recovered for autopsy.
“Recovered from them are one Nissan Pathfinder Jeep with Registration number EPE 603 AT belonging to the victim, one Pump Action gun, one cut-to-size local double barrel pistol, seven cartridges and one Gionee handset.”
He warned other criminals not to come into the Gateway State as they would not escape arrest and justice.
While speaking with journalists, Fademi, who is the gang leader, said that he gathered his experience in kidnapping and related crimes in Lagos.
According to Fademi, who said he finished his secondary school education at the Festac College in Lagos few years ago, the quest for quick money made him to venture into kidnapping.
He explained that he never knew that the victim was actually dying when he complained of experiencing a choking sensation following the battering on his back with feet by them.
The suspect also confessed to belonging to other criminal gangs in Delta and Lagos states in addition to the kidnapping team he personally established in Igbokoda, the town which he was using as operational base.
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