POLICEMEN from Oyo State Police Command and their Lagos State
counterpart on Thursday recorded a huge success when a serving soldier,
whose name was given as Bada Yussuf, was arrested in Ibadan in
connection with the kidnap of an Indian, Oroj Cink Comasin.
Comasin, an engineer with a telecommunications giant, was said to
have been kidnapped while working in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, on Monday,
December 31, 2012.
Saturday Tribune learnt that the abductors demanded an unspecified
amount of money from the relations of their victim and directed the
relations to Ibadan to drop the ransom.
However, the Indian nationals who were to drop the ransom, it was
learnt, sought an audience with the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State,
Mr Mbu Joseph Mbu, and told him of their mission to the state.
The Commisioner of Police reportedly assigned a crack intelligence
team to join the policemen who came from Lagos to rescue the kidnapped
Indian.
Police sources said the soldier, in uniform, was arrested around Guru
Maharajji area, along Lagos - Ibadan Expressway where he had gone in a
car to collect the ransom.
The policemen were reportedly shocked to see that it was a soldier and three civilians that were behind the kidnap.
He was nabbed and the Indian was rescued while his three accomplices escaped.
The rescued Indian, who was without shoes when he was seen by
Saturday Tribune, at the police headquarters in Ibadan, and the suspect
have been taken to Lagos for further investigations.
Saturday Tribune gathered that the 22-year-old soldier, an indigene
of Lagos State, joined the Nigerian Army in 2011 and was attached to 81
Batallion, Mokola Barracks in Ibadan.
He was reportedly on pass (a kind of casual leave) at the time he was
apprehended, which gave an indication that he must have taken
permission to deceive his superiors and to enable him carry out the
crime without being declared absent from work.
Confirming the story, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Mbu Joseph Mbu,
said the arrest was not a success for a particular police command but
the Inspector -General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, and the entire
Nigeria Police Force.
When asked to confirm the name of the suspect, the police
commissioner refused, but said that the case and the persons involved
had been transferred to Lagos State.
“The civilians did not feature directly but it was the soldier who
came forward to collect the ransom,” the Commissioner of Police told
Saturday Tribune.
When contacted, the spokesman for 2 Mechanised Division of the
Nigeria Army, Lieutenant Colonel Mustapha Anka, confirmed that “we heard
an information that a soldier was arrested on an alleged case of
kidnapping and that he had been taken to Lagos State.”
He added: “We don’t have the full details yet, but all hands are on
deck to know the real situation of things. The Army does not condone any
criminality so we will still get to you later when we have more
information.”
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