Police kill abductors of Lagos council chief

Posted by: Jude Isiguzo in Featured, News

Seven among the suspected kidnappers of the Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Lagos State, Mr Kehinde Bamigbetan, have been killed by the police , it was learnt yesterday.

Two others were arrested alive by the crack team that carried out the operation.

Those arrested are: Ogbonna Emenike, 27 and Uchenna Nwanyu, 25, who were paraded alongside the bodies of their deceased members by Lagos Police chief Umar Manko in the afternoon, yesterday.

A combined team of the State Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) led by Superintendent (SP) Abba Kyari killed the suspects at Agbara, a Lagos suburb, shortly after they abducted an Indian, Vivex Chagrani and brought him to the hide-out early yesterday.

The Indian was said to have been kidnapped in Ikoyi area of Lagos on his way back from night outing.

The victim was rescued unhurt during an exchange of gunfire with the police when the two were arrested.

It was learnt that two other suspects were shot in the leg.

One of the suspects, Nwanyu said: “My boss and his wife told me that they were into drug trafficking. I was surprised to see that he is the leader of the kidnapping gang.”

Recovered from them include four AK 47 rifles, 28 AK 47 fully loaded magazines, over 1,000 live ammunition, army uniforms, one CRV Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) marked, ABC 106 AE and a Nissan Pathfinder marked, No. AGL730AZ.

Manko said: “Based on painstaking follow-up, surveillance and tracking of Ghana-based Nigerian kidnappers who kidnapped Ejigbo Local Government Chairman, Hon. Kehinde Bamgbetan, a sitting Federal High Court Judge and another notable individual in Lagos, O/C SARS, SP Abba Kyari led a team of crack detectives to a suburb in Agbara, Ogun State, where the kidnappers have their camp.

“After 72 hours of waiting in an ambush, Kyari and his team cordoned off and stormed the house where all the kidnappers had gathered at about 3am. As a result, seven of them were fatally wounded during heavy gun battle between the kidnappers and SARS operatives”.

He said two of the gang members were arrested with arms charms and operational vehicles among others.

Gbawe: Nigeria sha. The two are not even cuffed and appear quite relaxed sitting near their dead colleagues. Na wa.

Garri the 1st: Instead of these people to make themselves useful, they go about engaging criminal activities. If Lagos is to challengig for you, why not go back to your village??

Abi dem bury ya placenta for Lagos??

frederal:

For ur mind, u be solomon.

Garri the 1st: Instead of these people to make themselves useful, they go about engaging criminal activities. If Lagos is to challengig for you, why not go back to your village??

Abi dem bury ya placenta for Lagos??

berem: Ogbeni, can't you be proud of your home state, Delta State, for once? You haven't said anything positive about your state. No matter how bad it is, be proud of where you come from. Your obsession with Lagos is becoming silly!

Jakumo: Good job by the police. They should go ahead and splatter the two remaining kinappers' craniums with a few well-deserved busrts of hot AK fire, after finding out who the head honcho is, so that he too can be turned into compost for agricultural soil enrichment.

After now unu go dey halla say Naija police no sabi work. Dem work now, or dem no work ?

Garri the 1st:

Why not help me search for Good news from Delta State... Abi when was the last time we heard good news from Delta??

Meanwhile focus on the issue of the criminals who are bringing Ndigbo to disrepute.

OOPs I forgot..

seunfly: Oh God!!! See wasted life of a graduate, master degree holder 4 dt matter, just because our leaders has stolen what belong to them.
Anyway kudo to Nigerian police if they are the genuine kidnapers.

Gbawe:

Tragic. Not making excuses for these guys but some of them are genuine victims of circumstances if you trace how they became involved in crime.

frederal:
For ur mind, u be solomon.

Garri the 1st:

Face topic. Some of these dudes ought to go back to the village if they can't make a decent living in Lagos, it's as simple as that!!

There are places in Nigeria where with 15k a month you can live comfortably.....