Posted By: Precious Igbonwelundu and Ebele Boniface

Contrary to their stand on ransom, the police paid N200,000 for the release of a kidnapped sergeant, a suspected kidnapper alleged yesterday.

Aboy Fekun, who was paraded with two others at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja, claimed that the Ketu Divisional Police Officer (DPO) paid N200,000 of the N300,000 ransom for the release of Sergeant Bola.

The policewoman’s family, he said, paid the N300,000 balance.

Sergeant Bola was abducted last month at Omu-Ijebu, a community along the Lagos-Ogun boundary.

Fekun, 23, Tola Samuel, 26 and Mimo Blessing, 20, were arrested on Sunday by a combined team of Anti-Kidnapping Squad and Mobile Policemen.

Police Commissioner Fatai Owoseni, who paraded the suspects, said four automatic rifles, one locally made gun, N400,000 cash, three speed boats, several cutlasses and cell phones were recovered from them.

The suspects said they collected N5million ransom from the family of a lawyer, who was kidnapped on his farm at Igbodun in Epe.

Fekun said the police recovered his N400,000 share of the ransom.

He said: “I was recruited into the gang three months ago by Tallest. I knew him from our village in Ondo State. It was Tallest who invited me to Lagos. I arrived in Lagos in January and I was picked up by two members of the gang. They took me in a boat to their camp at Molajoye, in Epe.

“My first operation was the one involving a female sergeant. On that fateful day, we came out from the creek in two speed boats. We laid ambush at the Molajoye bridge. While we were waiting, we saw a vehicle carrying five persons. We pounced on them immediately they got to the bridge. We took all the occupants of the vehicle into our boats. They were three women and two men. We headed to our camp. We kept them for five days. It was while we were at the camp that we discovered that a policewoman was among the five persons we abducted.

“We separated her from the others. We later called the DPO in charge of Ketu that we have abducted one of his policemen. We demanded for the sum of N5 million as ransom from the DPO. We also contacted the family of the policewoman and demanded N5 million from them. But the DPO said he won’t be able to pay N5 million. At the end we collected N200,000 from him and collected an additional N300,000 from the woman’s family.”

Fekun said they kidnaped the lawyer because of his fellow farmers’ protest to the Government House.



He added: “We also took the lawyer to our camp. Initially we demanded N20 milllion from his family members but at the end we settled for N5 million. His family paid the agreed sum. Tallest gave me N400,000 as my own share of the ransom. It is the money the police found on me on the day we were arrested. We were arrested at Epe while on our way to Ijebu, Ogun State. Other gang members fled when they learnt of our arrest.”

Samuel denied being a kidnapper, insisting that he was contracted by Fekun and Mimo to take them to Ijebu.

He said: “They contracted me to take them to Ijebu. I don’t know what they do. I am not their member.”

Corroborating his claim, Fekun said: “We had scheduled to go to Ijebu last Saturday, but he declined; insisting that it was too late. We agreed that he should pick us up around 4:30am on Sunday. As agreed, he arrived on time and we were already on our way when some policemen accosted us. They discovered the money and some phones inside the bag I was carrying.

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end of road.
this reminds me of the confession video of the case of the jumia guy that was killed. i have been thinking of the poor jumia guy all night. i don't know why i'm so touched about that guy's death.
this world is lost!

Believe NPF at your peril

Then what is the hope of a common man if Npf will pay ransom to kidnappers?

the Police is your friend. is an irony... police and criminals are like brothers

So police also pays ransom for kidnapped victim



it's finished. .. .

criminals everywhere.