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The Police have confirmed the arrest of nine members of a suspected kidnapping gang, terrorising Lekki-Ajah axis of Lagos State.<\/p>\n
The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumiyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the arrest on Friday in a statement.<\/p>\n
Adejobi said that mobile policemen from MOPOL 20, Ikeja, and Maroko Police Division, carried out the operation to arrest the suspected kidnappers.<\/p>\n
He said the arrest was made after a shootout that lasted hours around one of the suspects\u2019 hideout in the Lekki-Ajah axis of the state.<\/p>\n
The police spokesperson said that the suspects were members of a notorious gang of kidnappers operating in the Lekki-Ajah axis.<\/p>\n
He said that their arrest followed a series of complaints from members of the public to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Mr Adegoke Fayoade, over an upsurge in kidnapping along the Lekki-Ajah axis.<\/p>\n
Adejobi said that during the raid, three Point of Sale (POS) machines, allegedly used for the collection of ransom money, and 10 mobile phones, were recovered from the suspects.<\/p>\n
He said over the past weeks, the operations had recorded several achievements.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a more recent happening, on March 17, 2024, at about 10:30 p.m., the Commander PMF 20, Ikeja, Lagos, led a joint team of mobile policemen and officers from Maroko Division to a suspected den of kidnappers where they arrested nine suspected kidnappers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThree of their victims were also rescued, while 10 mobile phones and two POS machines were recovered from the suspects,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Force spokesperson said that in a similar occurrence, on March 16, 2024, police operatives of the Badagry Divisional Headquarters arrested one Abass, suspected to be the leader of a cult gang allegedly involved in the shooting of one Adeniyi Adebanjo, on Feb. 26, 2024.<\/p>\n
He said that upon his arrest, the suspect confessed to the crime and admitted to being the leader of a six-man cult gang operating in Badagry area of Lagos state.<\/p>\n
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