Crime
Police Arrest BDC Operators For Kidnapping Colleague’s Son In Lagos
Preliminary investigation reveals that all the suspects are fellow BDC operators in the same business
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested six Bureau De Change operators who allegedly conspired to abduct an eight-year-old child of their colleague.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the development in a tweet, said the suspects conspired to perpetrate the crime, adding that the boy was released three days after.
He said after the suspects were arrested, the investigation revealed that they were also BDC operators working in the same business district with the victim’s father, adding that the suspects would be charged after the investigation.
Mr Hundeyin said, “These six (suspects) conspired and kidnapped the eight-year-old child of a BDC operator. The child was released three days later bound with hands and feet in a sack.
“Preliminary investigation reveals that all the suspects are fellow BDC operators in the same business district of Lagos. The suspects will be arraigned at the end of the investigation.”
In another development, Hudenyin in a tweet on Tuesday said policemen attached to the Ajah Police Station arrested two suspected cultists in the Ajah area of the state.
He explained that the suspects were arrested after policemen received a distress call that cultists were on a rampage in the area, adding that two locally-made pistols were recovered from them.