Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested one Sunday Nwankwo and two employees of an oil and gas merchant, Aguizu Chukwu, 19, and Tunde Olaewo, 21, for allegedly planning to kidnap their boss, one Solomon Otungo, in the Ejigbo area of the state.
The state Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Mu’azu, said at a press briefing, on Thursday, that the command mobilised operatives to arrest the suspects at their meeting point, after it received credible intelligence about the alleged plan to kidnap the oil and gas merchant.
He added that the suspects confessed to the crime and said they would have demanded a ransom of N60m from Otungo if their plan had succeeded.
Mu’azu said, “The police received credible intelligence report that some newly-employed workers of one Solomon Otungo, an oil and gas merchant in the Bucknor area of Ejigbo, Lagos, were holding nocturnal meetings on how they would kidnap and keep their employer incommunicado until a ransom of N60m was paid.
The CP added that investigation was ongoing with a view to arresting the fleeing Ibrahim.
The command has also apprehended a 31-year-old man, Ahmed Lukmon, of No. 5 Olubuade Street, Amukoko area of the state for alleged involvement in armed robbery.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Chike Oti, said in a statement, on Thursday, that the operatives also recovered one locally-made double-barrelled shotgun with one unexpended and two expended cartridges from the suspect.
He said, “The Lagos State Police Command arrested a suspected armed robber, Ahmed Lukmon, 31, on February 19 around 2pm during a stop and search operation by a team of policemen at the Amukoko junction, Amukoko area of Lagos.
“The police recovered one locally-made double-barrelled shotgun with one unexpended and two expended cartridges from the suspect.”
He added that investigation was in progress on the case.
Oti also said a team of policemen and firefighters, on the same date around 5.50pm, put out an inferno at the Taste Time factory, Ipaja Mine, Lagos.
