Mobolaji Michael
FOUR suspected members of a deadly kidnapping syndicate lost their lives in a supremacy gun-feed with crack detectives of the Zone 2 Police Command Monitoring Unit (ZMU), Lagos.
The syndicate, the Command said, had been terrorizing Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, a worrisome development that caught the attention of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police Zone 2, AIG Ari Mohammed Ali, via intelligence report that the hoodlums were sighted in an area believed to be their hideout.
Acting on the intelligence received on 6 May 2023, at about 6:6:00 pmAIG Ari detailed the CSP Adams Uba-led Monitoring Unit to rattle the suspects.
In a press statement issued by the Zonal Police Public Relations Officer (ZPPRO), SP Hauwa Idris-Adamu, she stated that “On sighting the policemen in their hideout at a forest along Ibara-Orile, Ogun State, the kidnappers engaged the detectives in a gun duel, during which four kidnappers were neutralized while others escaped with bullet wounds”.
“The detectives, thereafter, combed the vicinity where an unregistered Bajaj motorcycle, four AK-47 rifles, six magazines loaded with 20 live ammunition, 10 expended ammunition, were recovered”.
Meanwhile, according to the Command’s spokesperson, investigation into the incident
revealed that members of the syndicate were drawn from different parts of the country, while some of them came from the neighbouring countries of Niger and Chad.
She further said that efforts were on top gear to arrest other fleeing members of the gang, and that investigation was in progress.
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