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The Ogun State Police Command, on Monday, paraded six suspected kidnappers in Ogun State.
Included among the suspects is a legal practitioner from Ijebu Ode.
According to the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspects were arrested in connection to a kidnap threat by the miscreants.
Mr Oyeyemi said that they had demanded up to 250 million Naira from a businessman to avoid being kidnapped or killed.
He said that “based on that, the businessman wrote a petition to the command and the command commenced an investigation into the case.
“We embarked on a technical investigation and those people suspected that they were being trailed.
“But we have a recording of all their transactions, but the greatest surprise was that the case involved a legal practitioner who happened to be the one to take on bail, the arrested criminal in the first instance.
“It is a thing of surprise to us that somebody who ought to know what the law says, to uphold the law, is now aiding and abetting the criminals.
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“He was even involved in threatening, in making moves to extort money from the businessman.
“The said Alhaji Sakirudeen Olufowobi, did not know that we were trailing him, having all his transactions and conversations with these hoodlums on record.
“At the end of the day, we were able to come up with a very concrete evidence and that is why we got him arrested and the people he was planning with”.
The suspects have denied the allegations but Oyeyemi assured that they will be arraigned in a competent court of jurisdiction soon.
In another strange development, a Deputy Superintendent of Prisons in the Nigerian Prisons Service, Mr. Collins Ugwu, has been arrested by the Police in Enugu on suspicion of armed robbery.
Ugwu from Ebonyi who works at the HQ of the Nigeria Prisons Service Abuja, was reportedly caught in Enugu and will soon will be arraigned in court.
