‘I needed money for wedding,’ kidnap suspect confesses
The victim, whose identity has been withheld, was held captive for three days in a bush in the Ijedodo area before her family paid the ransom, which included N21 million, a bottle of schnapps, a power bank, and one kilogram of frozen turkey.
Read Also: And as you read this piece, the Lagos State Police Command has apprehended three members of a cross-state kidnap syndicate that abducted a businesswoman in the Ijedodo area of the state, collected N21 million as ransom before her release.
How they operated According to police investigations, the gang planned its operations in Ondo State, travelled to Lagos for the abduction in April 2026, and returned to the same Ondo community immediately after collecting the ransom, a pattern police said highlights the increasingly cross-border nature of kidnapping in the South-West.
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