File : Nigerian Police
The Lagos State Police Command spokesperson, Chike Oti, has disclosed that an try and kidnap a Deputy Comptroller of Customs, her youthful brother and her son was thwarted on Saturday by police detectives.
Oti mentioned performing below the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, the Area D Commander, ACP OlasojI shortly assembled a decoy workforce which performed together with a caller who had been calling Barrister Yisa Theophilus, the youthful brother of the feminine Customs officer.
The police workforce ran a fast test on the caller based mostly on obtainable info and got here to a conclusion that he was as much as one thing sinister.
“The workforce came upon that other than being a infamous felony within the space, the caller, later found to be one Yomi Odudare, was into land promoting. So the detectives known as him to satisfy with them for a land deal and he agreed.
“On Saturday, being the day they agreed to satisfy, the detectives went together with the youthful brother of the feminine officer Yisa Theophilus whom he had been calling often. They met the suspect at a venture web site in Ajah, Lagos, known as Fara-park and he was promptly arrested.
“During a transient interrogation on the scene of the arrest, the suspect confessed that he has by no means met the lawyer nor any member of his household.
“He, nevertheless, acknowledged that the concept to kidnap Bar Yisa, his sister and her son got here from one Olugbenga Kehinde Ojo, a former driver to the deputy comptroller’s uncle. He also stated that the concept was to kidnap the lawyer and power him to lure out his sister.
“To make his story plausible, he put a name to the mentioned Olugbenga Kehinde Ojo. He instructed him to satisfy up with him, that he had efficiently kidnapped the lawyer.
“He was blissful and so he rushed to the venue, straight into the ready arms of police detectives investigating the case.
“Both suspects took the police to a shanty, surrounded by water, situate in Eleko, alongside Lekki/Epe Expressway, Lagos, which they ready as a hostage floor for his or her would-be victims.
“It was the agreement of both suspects that in order to avoid the mistakes of the notorious kidnapper, Evans, the moment any of their potential victims sights Olugbenga Ojo, a former employee of the Deputy Comptroller’s uncle, that person must be killed because they all know him.”