Kidnap Gang Leader Narrates How They Kidnapped Popular Lagos Hotel Owner
Category: Lagos News
The kidnappers, who abducted the owner of Scot Hotel in Ikorodu area of
Lagos State, Saheed Kolawole, and demanded a ransom of $200,000, said
they monitored the victim for three days before abducting him.
Kolawole was rescued by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, led by SP Abba Kyari, eight days after he was kidnapped.
His kidnappers, who were based at Arepo, near Ikorodu, Lagos, a notorious haven of pipeline vandals, were said to have masterminded the recent attack on Owutu Police Station at Ikorodu, where three policemen and some passers-by were killed during a drive-by shooting.
The gang leader, John Paul, a native of Ukomu Village, Ovia South-West Local Government Area of Edo State, who was arrested at the spot where the kidnappers had waited to collect a ransom of $100,000, told Vanguard that they went into kidnapping due to massive blockade of their pipeline operation by men of the Inspector General of Police Special Task Force, on Pipeline Vandalism.
Paul, who sustained a bullet wound in his abdomen when he was arrested alongside a motorbike operator, Garba Adamu, at Igbolomu area of Ikorodu, said kidnapping became their only option when it became difficult for them to sell stolen petroleum products.
He said: “We went into kidnapping because we have been blocked by the police. We cannot leave our island with our products because the police are everywhere.
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Kolawole was rescued by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, led by SP Abba Kyari, eight days after he was kidnapped.
His kidnappers, who were based at Arepo, near Ikorodu, Lagos, a notorious haven of pipeline vandals, were said to have masterminded the recent attack on Owutu Police Station at Ikorodu, where three policemen and some passers-by were killed during a drive-by shooting.
The gang leader, John Paul, a native of Ukomu Village, Ovia South-West Local Government Area of Edo State, who was arrested at the spot where the kidnappers had waited to collect a ransom of $100,000, told Vanguard that they went into kidnapping due to massive blockade of their pipeline operation by men of the Inspector General of Police Special Task Force, on Pipeline Vandalism.
Paul, who sustained a bullet wound in his abdomen when he was arrested alongside a motorbike operator, Garba Adamu, at Igbolomu area of Ikorodu, said kidnapping became their only option when it became difficult for them to sell stolen petroleum products.
He said: “We went into kidnapping because we have been blocked by the police. We cannot leave our island with our products because the police are everywhere.
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“The officers cannot come into our island because of the nature of the
place. But they have prevented us from selling our products to buyers
from the mainland.
“It is affecting us seriously, that was why we attacked the Owutu Police Station. They left us with no other option than to go into kidnapping. “We kidnapped Mr. Kolawole because we know that he is a very rich man and could afford the ransom we demanded.
“I did not know that his sister would bring the police to the point where we wanted to collect the ransom.” Garba, a native of Katsina State, told Vanguard that he did not know that he was being used for kidnapping.
He said: “I know one of the boys, Pere. He is my customer. He was the one who called me to carry his friend to the place where I was arrested. “I did not know that they were kidnappers. I thought they were policemen because I normally see them with guns whenever they are going into the creeks.”
“It is affecting us seriously, that was why we attacked the Owutu Police Station. They left us with no other option than to go into kidnapping. “We kidnapped Mr. Kolawole because we know that he is a very rich man and could afford the ransom we demanded.
“I did not know that his sister would bring the police to the point where we wanted to collect the ransom.” Garba, a native of Katsina State, told Vanguard that he did not know that he was being used for kidnapping.
He said: “I know one of the boys, Pere. He is my customer. He was the one who called me to carry his friend to the place where I was arrested. “I did not know that they were kidnappers. I thought they were policemen because I normally see them with guns whenever they are going into the creeks.”
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