RRS Foils Kidnap Attempt of 2 Year-Old Boy

Operatives of Rapid Response Squad  (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command over the weekend arrested Suleiman Seidu, 33, for attempting to kidnap a two year-old boy, Chimdi Udwu, in Owode area of Ogun State.

The Decoy Team of the squad got a hint from one of the people that the prime suspect and master mind had contracted to kidnap the little boy.

Upon gathering further intelligence, a member of the RRS Decoy Team posed as a lady that the kidnapper will contract as a babyseater of the child after he has been kidnapped.

RRS Source disclosed that during the two weeks period of planning how the boy will be kidnapped, the investigator, decoying as an accomplice, was exchanging information with prime suspect.

It was also revealed that the suspect, assured the accomplice that a motorcycle to use in kidnapping the boy was ready, stressing that the ransome would by N10 million, because the father of the boy would be able to afford it as a landlord and dealer in electrical appliances.

It was learnt that when the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni was informed of the  jurisdictional challenge of arresting the kidnapped suspect in Ogun State, he ordered the Decoy team to proceed assuring them he would contact his colleague in Ogun, adding that there was no jurisdiction in crime.

The source added that the suspect had successfully kidnapped two persons in Kogi  State where he collected huge ransoms from their families.

Seidu who confessed to the crime said that he wanted to kidnap the young boy because his biological mother is seriously ill and looking for money by all means to pay her hospital bill.

 “I have been on the trail of that young boy and her parents for quite a while now. I conceived the idea to kidnap him when I was left with no option than to commit the crime because my mother is very ill at the moment. I wanted to demand for N10 Million ransom but if his parents cannot afford the whole at least I was expecting N3 Million at the end of the day.

“Although, I just relocated to that area and I am not that familiar with the nooks and crannies of that area very well.

Then, I thought of contracting someone who knew the environment very well and would make the job easy for me”. Seidu confessed.

During interrogation the suspect narrated how he planned to carry out the kidnapping.

“I had been watching the movements of his parents for about two weeks. I discovered that whenever he was taking the boy to school every day, when the man drives out. He would alight from the car to lock the gate because they don’t have a gate keeper in their house. Also he takes him to school between 7:00 a.m and 8:00 a.m.

“What I devised was to kidnap the boy whenever the driver alight from the car to close the gate, escape on a waiting bike. Although, I live in a room and parlour apartment, I had planned to keep him with me in my house to be demanding and threatening his parent to bring my expected ransom”. The suspect explained.

The father of the child, Mr. Udwu, who had no inkling of the looming woe, thanked the Policemen for carrying out the intelligence report that led to the successful arrest of the suspect.

Reacting to the incidence, the Police Public Relations Officer of Lagos State, Superintendent of Police, Dolapo Badmus, said that the suspect would be charged to court upon completion of the Police investigation.

The suspect has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, for further investigation.