A female police officer attached to the Lagos State Police Command has shown that she is truly a superwoman after she joined a kidnap gang and operated under cover which led to their arrest.
Punch reports that the kingpin of the gang, Suleiman Seidu, was arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the State Command as his gang had perfected plans to kidnap a two-year-old child.
According
to reports, the 33-year-old had allegedly kidnapped two residents of
Kogi State and had collected a huge sum of money as ransom but his plot
to kidnap the child was aborted due to the intervention of the female
cop.
It was gathered that Seidu had contracted two
of his friends to assist in the operation when the police got wind of
the plan and the female officer, a member of the RRS decoy team managed
to infiltrate the kidnap gang which led to the arrest of the suspect in
the Owode area of Ogun State.
A police source who narrated how the suspect was arrested, said:
“We
got a hint about the kidnap from one of the two persons that the prime
suspect contracted. The man was not okay with the idea, so he came to
tell us.
A female member of the RRS
decoy team joined the gang. She was given the job of taking care of
members and the child after his abduction.
For
more than two weeks while the operation took shape, the investigator,
pretending as an accomplice, got information from the prime suspect.
The
suspect told our mole that he had a motorcycle to aid him in the
abduction of the boy, adding that the ransom would be N10m. He said the
boy’s father was a landlord and a dealer in electrical appliances.”
Seidu,
an indigene of Kogi State, according to the police, has confessed to
the crime, saying he needed the money to treat his ailing mother.
In his confession, he said:
“I
had been monitoring the boy for two weeks. I observed that whenever the
driver was taking him to school, he would first alight from the car to
lock the gate because they didn’t have a gatekeeper in their house.
Also,
he takes him to school between 7 am and 8 am. What I planned was to
kidnap the boy when the driver alighted from the car to close the gate
and escape on a waiting motorcycle.
I
live in a room and parlor apartment, and I planned to keep him with me
till his parents pay the ransom. I planned to demand N10m, but if his
parents could not afford the whole money, I would have accepted N3m at
the end of the day.
I conceived the idea
to kidnap him when I was left with no option because my mother is very
ill at the moment. I just relocated to the area and didn’t know the nook
and cranny very well.
I thought of getting someone who knew the environment well to make the job easier for me.”
Confirming the arrest of the suspect, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Dolapo Badmos,
said the suspect has been transferred to the State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba, for further
investigation and would be charged to court upon the completion of an
investigation.
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