Police Foil Attempt To Kidnap Customs Boss

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

 An attempt to kidnap a Deputy Comptroller of Customs, her younger brother and her son was on 16^th June, 2018, thwarted by police detectives attached to Area D Command, Mushin, Lagos.

Acting under the directive of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Edgal Imohimi, the Area D Commander quickly assembled a decoy team which played along with a caller who had been calling Barrister Yisa Theophilus, the younger brother to the female officer.

The police team ran a quick check on the caller based on available information and came to conclusion that he was up to something sinister. The team found out that aside being a notorious criminal in the area, the caller, later discovered to be one Yomi Odudare, was into land selling business (omonile). So the detectives called him to meet with them for a land deal and he agreed.

On 16^th June, 2018, being the day they had agreed to meet, the detectives went along with the younger brother to the female officer, Yisa Theophilus, who he had called frequently. They met the suspect at a project site in Ajah, Lagos, called Fara-park and he was promptly arrested.

During a brief interrogation at the scene of arrest, the suspect confessed that he had never met the lawyer nor any member of his family. He however said that the idea to kidnap Barrister Yisa, his sister and her son came from one Olugbenga Kehinde Ojo, a former driver to the Deputy Comptroller’s uncle. He added that the idea was to kidnap the lawyer and force him to lure his sister, who was a Deputy Comptroller of Customs to their hideout.

To make his story believable, he put a call through to the said Olugbenga Kehinde Ojo. He told him to meet up with him, that he had successfully kidnapped the lawyer. Olugbenga was happy and so rushed straight to the venue of the meeting into the waiting arms of the police detectives investigating the case.

Both suspects took the police to a shanty, surrounded by water, situated in Eleko, along Lekki/Epe expressway, Lagos, which they had prepared as a hostage ground for their would be victims. It was the agreement of both suspects that in order to avoid the mistakes of the notorious kidnapper, Evans, that the moment any of their potential victims sighted Olugbenga Ojo, a former employee of the Deputy Comptroller’s uncle, that person must be killed because they all know him.

CP Edgal Imohimi wishes to use this opportunity to advise Lagosians to be wary of people who call them out for lucrative business deals, as it might turn out to be a ploy to kidnap or harm them. He however assured that the Command will remain proactive in the fight against crimes and criminality in the state.