Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police
Command over the weekend arrested Suleiman Seidu, 33, for attempting to kidnap
a two year-old boy, Chimdi Udwu, in Owode area of Ogun State.
The Decoy Team of the squad got a hint about a kidnap
attempt on a little boy by one of the two persons who the prime suspect had
contracted to perpetrate the crime.
Upon gathering further intelligence, a member of the RRS
Decoy Team posed as a lady that the kidnapper sought to help give the child a
good care.
RRS source disclosed that for more than two weeks while the
kidnapping took shape, the investigator, pretending as an accomplice, was
exchanging information with prime suspect.
It was revealed that the suspect, assured the accomplice
that he has gotten motorcycle to use in kidnapping the boy, stressing that the
ransom was N10 million, which the father of the parents of the boy would be
able to afford as a landlord and dealer in electrical appliances.
It was learnt that when the Commissioner of Police, Mr.
Fatai Owoseni, was informed of the jurisdictional challenge of arresting the
kidnapped suspect in Ogun State. The CP ordered the Decoy team to proceed
assuring them he would contact his colleague in Ogun, adding that there was no
jurisdiction in crime.
Source in RRS disclosed that one of the kidnapping suspect
was shocked by the insistence of the prime suspect to kidnap the little boy and
request for N10 Million ransom.
He continued: “I knew it was going to boomerang if I conceal
the information and not inform the police…. Then, I called one of my
friends who resides in Lagos and explained the whole idea of kidnap attempt on
an innocent boy by someone in my neighbourhood, and the person also solicited
me to join him to commit the crime…. It was this my friend that told me to come
to Lagos to inform the RRS, which I eventually came the following day to report
the case at its headquarters in Lagos,” the informant was quoted as saying.
The source added that the suspect had successfully kidnapped
two persons in Kogi State where he collected huge ransoms from their families.
Upon his arrival at the RRS’ Headquarters in Lagos, the
suspect who confessed to the crime said that he wanted to kidnap the young boy
because his biological mother is seriously ill and looking for money by all
means to pay her hospital bill.
In his confessional statement, he revealed, “I have been on
the trail of that young boy and her parents for quite a while now. I conceived
the idea to kidnap him when I was left with no option than to commit the crime
because my mother is very ill at the moment…. I wanted to demand for N10
Million ransom but if his parents cannot afford the whole at least I was expecting
N3 Million at the end of the day…. Although, I just relocated to that area and
I am not that familiar with the nooks and crannies of that area very well….
Then, I thought of contracting someone who knew the environment very well and
would make the job easy for me.”
Interrogating him how he would carry out the kidnapping, the
Kogi State born suspect explained, “I had been watching the movements of his
parents for about two weeks. I discovered that whenever he was taking the boy
to school every day, when the man drives out…. He would alight from the car to
lock the gate because they don’t have a gate keeper in their house. Also he
takes him to school between 7:00 a.m and 8:00 a.m…. What I devised was to
kidnap the boy whenever the driver alights from the car to close the gate,
escape on a waiting bike…. Although, I live in a room and parlour apartment, I
had planned to keep him with me in my house to be demanding and threatening his
parent to bring my expected ransom.”
The father of the child, Udwu, who had no inkling of the
looming woe, thanked the Policemen for carrying out the intelligence report
successfully which led to the arrest of the kidnap suspect.
Reacting to the incidence, the Police Public Relations
Officer of Lagos State, Superintendent of Police, Dolapo Badmus, said that the
suspect would be charged to court upon completion of the Police investigation.
The suspect has been transferred to the State Criminal
Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, for further investigation.
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