Kidnappers in Lagos Devise New Methods to Abduct Victims, Together with Approaching Them in Police Uniforms

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ON Saturday, September 21 when Mrs Adebusola Odunaya stepped out of her home, it was with the hope of attending to Idumota the place she had meant to buy a inventory of noodles and another objects for her enterprise. However little did she know that the journey that normally takes her just a few hours would flip to 6 days of anguish in an unknown vacation spot within the jungle, alongside Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Thank God she survived to relate her story.

Mrs Odunaya, Girls chief of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Cornerstone Parish, Lagos, recounted how her journey started on that day. In keeping with her, when she obtained to Ishaga space, there was no automobile going to Idumota, so she determined to go to Agege, and nonetheless there was no automobile going to Idumota immediately. She needed to board a Molue bus going to Oshodi the place she had anticipated to get a direct bus to her vacation spot. As destiny would have it, a smaller danfo bus conductor started calling Idumota, which made her shortly alight from the Molue, pondering that her journey can be sooner with the direct bus.

She nonetheless recalled that they had been solely three girls within the bus, together with the driving force when she boarded. As quickly as she joined them, the ladies requested the driving force to maneuver in order that they will carry different passengers alongside. And as they had been anticipating the driving force to maneuver, the conductor got here alongside and touched her with a handkerchief and he or she handed out immediately, simply to get up later in a bush alongside Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. She found that her hair been shaven and has additionally been dispossessed of the N500,000 she meant to make use of for the acquisition of products in Idumota.

If Odunaya’s story was harrowing and stunning, Alhaji Alaka Kamaldeen’s story may cross for a typical blockbuster Nollywood horror film. In keeping with the 46-year-old contractor, based mostly in Ikorodu, Lagos, he was standing in entrance of his workplace on August 24, when an Audi automotive with 4 passengers abruptly pulled near him, armed with weapons. And with out saying a phrase they pounced on him, slapped him repeatedly earlier than dragging him into the automotive.

In keeping with him, one of many males wore a bulletproof vest within the method of the police, which initially made him to assume that they had been safety operatives. It wasn’t till they obtained to Itokin junction that he started to suspect that one thing was fishy. As an alternative of heading to the police station, they veered off the highway into the bush. It then dawned on him that he had been kidnapped. He started to scream as they had been approaching the seaside, and because the automotive tried to hurry by, it sank into the sand, making it troublesome for them to maneuver. Kamaldeen started to scream for assist as individuals started to collect, however as a substitute of that scaring the abductors away; they started to shoot sporadically into the air to disperse the gang. They got here down and pushed the automotive and drove near a creek and commenced calling a contact for a ship. As they waited for the boat, Kamaldeen’s captors descendend on him earlier than dousing him with gas, they usually threatened to lynch him. Not lengthy afterward a speedboat arrived, even because the abductors eliminated the plate variety of the automotive.

In keeping with Kamaldeen, there have been about ten 100-litre jerry cans, probably containing gas for the eight hours journey that will take them to Warri, Delta State. He, recounted in full particulars, how he was kidnapped since he was not blindfolded. He instructed the press how at intervals, they encountered what seemed like checkpoints manned by different kidnappers within the creeks. At every of those checkpoints, he famous that the abductors can be requested to establish themselves and the captors would increase their arms in response.

Whereas narrating his ordeal Kamaldeen gave a vivid description of the camp. He mentioned the camp was surrounded by many huts, with many individuals held hostage. In his phrases “I used to be introduced earlier than the top of the abductors, who was wearing a swimsuit, He was unimpressed when he found that I used to be neither a captain of business nor a politician however simply an extraordinary citizen. I used to be then taken to a piece of the camp appropriate for my station in life and handed the evening on a mattress manufactured from logs and wooden”, he mentioned.

Kamaldeen, whose household was contacted and requested to pay the ransom of N150million, was later launched upon parting with N5million amidst pleas with the abductors.

In the meantime, the police not too long ago smashed a kidnap syndicate of eight, which embrace a girl believed to be answerable for the demise of a businessman, Mr. Odidi Nweze in FESTAC. The commissioner of Police, Mr. Manko nonetheless mentioned that the modus operandi of the syndicate was to kidnap their victims and take them to FESTAC. He nonetheless expressed his concern over the variety of victims who had been taken to FESTAC.

In keeping with him, kidnapping that had been recorded within the current occasions had their victims drugged and brought to FESTAC. Their kingpin, Kelvin Emenike, who was lured to Lagos by the Police within the pretence of getting a enterprise proposal for him, was the primary to be arrested.

Emenike gave vivid particulars of how they function, stating that they normally go on bikes and path individuals in flashy automobiles and assault them. After kidnapping them, they might name the household for ransom.

Kidnapping is not information in Nigeria, however due to its industrial disposition in Nigeria, Lagos must be protected. Each the federal and the state governments want to affix arms to struggle this criminality, which is turning into viral, Niyi Adebisi, a authorized practitioner famous.

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Source by Austin Adim Okonji