The Lagos State Police Command has stated it’s wanting into the case of a suspected kidnap of a yet-to-be-identified feminine grownup on Monday, January 1, on the Victoria Island space of the state.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, made this identified whereas chatting with PUNCH Metro on Tuesday.
An X (previously Twitter) consumer, Bishop Khale, had raised the alarm in a video he posted on the platform on the identical day the place he alleged that the lady was struggling to get out of a black Pathfinder on Ahmadu Bello Manner.
Reacting, Hundeyin stated, “There isn’t a indication that there was an abduction however we’re wanting into the incident. Nobody had additionally come ahead to report any case of kidnap to the police.”
Within the put up, Khale stated he captured the face of the driving force and the quantity plate of the car.
He additionally defined how he trailed the car and made efforts to alert different motorists who ignored him.
He wrote, “Occurring now on New Yr’s Day. A woman was struggling to get out of this Black Pathfinder on Ahmadu Bello Manner, Lagos. I consider she’s been kidnapped. I received the face of the driving force and the plates,” he wrote. “For the file: I raised the alarm. Known as on space boys, however most of them hesitated. The motive force received again within the automobile and drove off. I adopted the automobile round V.I, hoping I’d see a policeman to report back to, however none was on the route they adopted. They later began driving again in the direction of the Third Mainland Bridge. I even flagged down vehicles behind me and saved screaming somebody was being kidnapped. Everybody overtook me. I already adopted them round horning for some minutes earlier than they parked. That’s once I remembered to take a video.”
PUNCH Metro had reported {that a} automobile supplier popularly often known as Ejike Conversion was kidnapped by armed males on Saturday, December 9, 2023, within the Ladipo Spare Elements Market.
In what appeared like a syndicate, a gaggle of unidentified armed males was stated to have kidnapped the proprietor of a preferred resort situated at Grandmate bus cease within the Ijegun space of the state in October 2023. His household reportedly paid about N100m as ransom earlier than he was later launched.
Comparable circumstances of abduction have been recorded on Governor’s Street in Ikotun, Gowon Property in Egbeda and different areas within the Alimosho Native Authorities Space because the victims have been made to half with large ransoms earlier than they have been launched.