Police bust 10-man-gang of kidnappers who murdered businessman

Just weeks after a Clearing and Forward agent, was killed by some kidnappers in Satellite town Lagos, State, the police command has smoked them out.

Though the gang members are said to be 10, but six are already in police net, while the hunt for others continued.

The gang, a few weeks back, kidnapped and murdered Mr. Oddi Nweze when he struggled with them inside their bus.

Police had claimed that it would point its radar at Oxpharm specialties LTD, because the businessman was allegedly killed in front of the company.

The Pharmacy had sharply contradicted the Lagos State Police Command assertion, stressing that the man was not killed in front of the company, neither did the entered the store to buy anything.

Incidentally, it was this same store that injection used in killing Cynthia Osokogu, was purchased by her killers. This coincidence was what made thing fishy to some detectives.

But the state’s commissioner of police, Prince Umar Manko, reacting to the coincidence of the Osokogu’s killers purchasing the killer drugs at the pharmacy and Nweze being killed not far from the store, insisted that such coincidences, does not make the company culpable  in any criminal acts.

According to Manko, the command will not link the pharmacy to the murder of the businessman because criminals could operate anywhere.

The commander, in charge of area E, Festac Mr. Dan Okoro, said the gang used to operate in different parts of Lagos, including Ajah.

The ring leader, one Chibuzor Onowum, is alleged to be operating from Ghana and presently on the run.

Okoro explained that Chibuzor used to come to Lagos, to operate, and then go back to Ghana with his money accrued from his dirty game.

Chibuzor’s sister, Ngozi Onowu, is also in police net.

She claimed not to know that her brother was into kidnapping business.  She said that the young man told her that he was into cocaine trafficking.

One of the gang members, Ken, said he did not go with the gang to operate on the day Nweze was killed.

But he was later told that the gang had to kill Nweze because he dared to struggle to take possession of their gun.

According to Okoro, investigators had lure Ken from Port Harcourt to Lagos. Ken was used as bait to catch other gang members.