The men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ogun State Police Command have arrested a serving councillor of Ward 14, Odogbolu Local area of Ogun State, Agboola Lateef, and four others for kidnapping.
The other are: Mukaila Olatunji, Sunkanmi Dacosta, Tunde Akilo and Ahmed Adebanjo.
Three members of the kidnapping syndicate were said to be at large.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Valentine Ntomchukwu, led the team to their den in Ijebu-Igbo which comprised of three bungalows in a remote part of the town.
The councillor, who said he regretted being arrested with the kidnappers, denied being part of the syndicate. He claimed it was his younger brother, who is currently at large that drew him into the mess.
He said, “My brother called that his car had problem around Itoikin-Sagamu, and he asked that I should release my car for him. I later released my car, but I never knew he was into kidnapping business. I feel bad being paraded with the kidnappers.”
Sunkanmi Dacosta who said he ran errands buying food for their victims, said the syndicate had collected various ransoms from their victims relations.
He said, “We had collected N900,000. We had collected N1.3m and N2m from our victims’ relations.”
Mukaila Olatunji who claimed to be a herbalist owns the houses that served as the dens where the victims were kept.
“We usually bring the victims at night. And I am the owner of one the guns recovered from us. I used it for hunting while I was young,” he said.
Ntomchukwu said the den contained a shrine where the suspects hypnotise their victims and fleeced their family members.
“They have had five people as their victims so far. Currently we are profiling them, to know the total amount they had collected from their victims.”
The men of SARS led by Mohammed Tijani led the team that smashed the syndicate last Monday through the arrest of Tunde Akilo. This led to the arrest of four others.
Crime News: Ogun councillor, four others arrested for kidnapping
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