How Police Nabbed Suspected Kidnap Kingpin, Usman Hassan

MICHAEL AKINOLA

A man, identified as Usman Hassan, has been arrested by operatives from the Ogun State Police Command for alleged killing and kidnapping.

The suspect, Hassan, who was described by the Police as a notorious kidnap kingpin, was said to have escaped from Oyo State after killing one of his victims.

P.M.EXPRESS gathered that Hassan’s accomplices were earlier arrested in Oyo State after they kidnapped a farm owner at Solalu village and killed him despite collecting ransom, but he reportedly ran to Ogun State to hide.

According to the Ogun State Police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect on getting to Ogun State, started recruiting other men to form another kidnap gang in the state.

Oyeyemi said, “He ran out of luck when detectives of Ogun State Police Command got information about his activity from those he had tried to recruit into his kidnap team”.

It was gathered that Police detectives stormed his hideout in Imala area and he was promptly arrested.

“On interrogation, he confessed that he conspired with his biological brother, one Tahiru Usman and others to kidnap their victim in Akinyele area of Ibadan and that they decided to kill the man after collecting ransom because the man can identify them” the Police spokesman said on Monday.