The Lagos state police command are making headlong on their course of investigation concerning the kidnappers that abducted the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Chairman, Kehinde Bamigbetan, as well as Federal High Court Judge.
It has been observed that more two of the gang members have been arrested by the operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad of the command.
Crime Guard gathered that the trader, Adesuyi Oluwaseyi, received and disposed all valuable items stolen from kidnap victims, while the money transfer agent, Emeka Nwajiobi, helped the gang in laundering their kidnap proceeds abroad.
An ensued gun battle between the police and the kidnappers ,led to the seven members of the gang killed penultimate Monday
at their hideout in eIdomila community,Agbara Ogun State, with two others arrested alive along side with assorted types of AK47 ,
10000 rounds of live ammunition ,army uniform and many other items.
It was reliably informed that Oluaseyi and Nwajiobi were arrested following the confessional statement made available to the police by the two others that were arrested at the crime scene.
According to a source; “The suspects informed us that their leader, Jonah Benjamin Osinachi, popularly known as China, who is now deceased, engaged the suspects to disposed the stolen items from their victims and launder their kidnap proceeds in Ghana where they live.
The sources further said that, Oluwaseyi, received vehicles, laptop, cell phones and jewelries, belonging to kidnap victims. In the case of the Ejigbo Council boss, Bamigbetan, where the sum of $ 100,000, was paid as ransom, China, who was the gang’s leader, got $ 50,000 as his own share of the ransom and transferred $40,000 to Ghana through the illegal money transfer firm, Nwajiobi operated in Trade Fair Complex, Lagos”, the source stated.
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