MICHAEL AKINOLA
Two suspects, Elijah Emmanuel and Tony Oghanetega, who killed a 17-year- old Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) student,Thompson Omokhafe Adams, have been arrested by the Police in Lagos State.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the suspects confessed to the Police that they killed the teenager to cover up because the deceased boy identified one of them.
Investigations by the Police also revealed that the same suspects had in November 2025 abducted a female victim and killed her after collecting N300,000 ransom from the parents of the deceased girl.
Elijah Emmanuel aged 23 years and Tony Oghanetega ,aged 21 years and one hundred and sixteen others were among the suspects arrested by the Lagos State Police Command in the last one month.
The State Police boss, CP Tijani Fatai, while speaking with newsmen said, “In line with this commitment, the Command recorded remarkable operational successes within the month of April 2026, resulting in the arrest of numerous criminal suspects involved in armed robbery, cultism, kidnapping, vandalism, unlawful possession of firearms, street violence, and other related offences”.
“These achievements further reaffirm our resolve to rid Lagos State of criminal elements and sustain peace, safety, and public confidence in policing.”
According to the Lagos Police boss, the achievements included: Arrest of one hundred and eighteen (118) suspects recovery of eleven (11) locally fabricated Baretta pistols, one locally made cut-to-size pistol, one English Barretta pistol, two (2) dane guns,nine (9) telecom power batteries, four (4) cutlasses, one (1) knife, 1 bags of substances suspected to be Indian hemp, assorted charms and other incriminating items
CP Tijani told newsmen that on April 27, 2026, at about 2000hrs, operatives of the Command, acting on credible intelligence, traced and arrested two suspected kidnappers at Lucky Fibre Area, Ikorodu, Lagos.
The suspects were Elijah Emmanuel ‘m’, aged 23 years, and Tony Ekwane Oghanetega ‘m’, aged 21 years.”
He explained that preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects were linked to the kidnapping and gruesome murder of one Thomson Omokhafe Adams ‘m’, aged 17 years, which occurred on April 22, 2026.
Further interrogation also revealed that the suspects had earlier kidnapped and murdered a female victim on November 30, 2025, during which a ransom of Three Hundred Thousand Naira (₦300,000) was paid by the victim’s family.
According to a Police source, one of the suspects ,Tony Oghanetega confessed that they killed the boy,when he was returning from the JAMB centre
He continued that “It was his partner, Elijah, who was close to the boy and he was the one that lured him to where he was killed.
They tied his leg and hands before they strangled home to death. Tony was the first person to strangle him amd when he was tired, the second suspect, Elijah, continued and made sure that he was dead.