Three suspected have been trailed from Ibadan, Oyo
State, to Lagos after kidnapping a lady and collecting N3million ransom.
The suspects, Adekunle Funsho 31, Charles Ezeilo, 32
and Obioha Nnaji, were arrested by operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS),
Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command over the weekend. They were trailed to Fela
Shrine, Ikeja and Abule Egba.
A police source said: “The kidnappers, after
collecting the ransom fled to Lagos. After the police in Ibadan discovered the
suspects were heading to Lagos with the victim’s Toyota Highlander, the police
radioed Lagos police for assistance. RRS operatives, on receiving the radio
signal, tracked the vehicle to Fela Shrine in Ikeja, from where the suspects
further moved the vehicle to a compound somewhere Abule Egba, Lagos. It was there
that, the officers arrested one of the suspects before recovering the Toyota
Highlander, 2005 model with the registration number LND 954 EE.”
Funsho, a fashion designer around Felele, Ibadan,
where the kidnapping took place, said: “Theophilus handed over the car to me in
Ibadan and told me to look for a buyer for the car. I brought the car to Lagos
because I know that I would get a buyer quicker here. The instruction from him
was that I sell the Highlander at N800, 000:00. I got a buyer in Ondo State. He
has bought a car from me before, a fairly clean Toyota Corolla. He bought it
N550, 000:00. I took the car to him on Lagos - Ibadan Expressway, where he paid
me before driving off with the car.”
He explained that he and Charles had been friends
for over five years. He said: “We met at the Redeemed Church, Ogba, where I was
a chorister. I gave him the car to help me warehouse it for me to get a buyer.
He took the car from me at Fela Shrine to his house in Abule Egba.”
The case has been taken up by Oyo State Anti-Kidnapping
team for further investigations.
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