Three members of a kidnap syndicate have been arrested by operatives of Ogun State Police Command along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The suspects who were arrested on April 8, 2021, were said to have been terrorising commuters along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway for quite some time.
The suspects are 24 years old Nathaniel Jacob from Nasarawa State; 22 years old Isah Danladi from Kogi State and 23 years old Abubakar Rabiu from Niger State.
According to the spokesman of Ogun State Police Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement made available to FrontPage, the suspects were arrested at Fidiwo area along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, following a tip-off from some hunters, who sighted the suspects in the bush where they were planning on how to strike along the expressway.
The hunters quickly alerted the police, who rallied other stakeholders such as So Safe Corps, hunters group and stormed the Fidiwo Alapako bush.
On sighting the police, the suspects took to their heels in the bush, but luck ran out of the three and they were subsequently apprehended.
Three others however escaped with their arms.
On interrogation, the suspects confessed to have been in the bush for the past ten days, waiting for a convenient opportunity to strike.
They said it took them that long because of heavy presence of policemen on the stretch of the expressway.
They stated further that they were six in number.
They said the remaining three members of the gang who escaped were in possession of their arms.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the gang was responsible for the series of kidnapping along the expressway.
Recovered from them are cutlasses which they claimed were seized from farmers they saw in their farms.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to anti-kidnapping unit of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation.
The CP also assured members of the public that all the kidnap cases in the state would not go unresolved, as the command was working assiduously to bring the perpetrators to book.
