{"id":23354,"date":"2024-03-22T14:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-bust-lekki-kidnapping-gang-arrest-9-suspects\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T14:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:03:35","slug":"police-bust-lekki-kidnapping-gang-arrest-9-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-bust-lekki-kidnapping-gang-arrest-9-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Police bust Lekki kidnapping gang, arrest 9 suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Police have confirmed the arrest of nine members of a suspected kidnapping gang, terrorising Lekki-Ajah axis of Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumiyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the arrest on Friday in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Adejobi said that mobile policemen from MOPOL 20, Ikeja, and Maroko Police Division, carried out the operation to arrest the suspected kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The police spokesperson said that the suspects were members of a notorious gang of kidnappers operating in the Lekki-Ajah axis.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>He said over the past weeks, the operations had recorded several achievements.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>\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<p>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<p>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<p>Police bust Lekki kidnapping gang, arrest 9 suspects<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police have confirmed the arrest of nine members of a suspected kidnapping gang, terrorising Lekki-Ajah axis of Lagos State.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4185,384,15,310],"tags":[4186,387,180,99],"class_list":["post-23354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lekki","category-metro","category-news","category-police","tag-lekki","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}