Lagos police have arrested two Pakistani nationals, aged 19 and 28, for allegedly kidnapping a fellow 48-year-old Pakistani who was lured from Kano under false pretenses.<\/p>\n
Spokesperson for the Lagos Police Command, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, described the suspects as \u201cvicious and notorious,\u201d hailing their arrest as a major breakthrough.<\/span><\/p>\n According to Hundeyin, a distress call on Wednesday led police operatives from the Ikeja Division to swiftly rescue the victim and apprehend two of the abductors, while five others managed to escape.<\/span><\/p>\n Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects deceived the victim by promising him a chef\u2019s job in Lagos, even booking his flight and lodging him in a hotel upon arrival on February 28.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the next day, the kidnappers struck\u2014overpowering the victim, tying his hands and legs, and demanding a <\/span>N50 million ransom<\/span> from his boss in Kano, threatening to kill him if the demand was not met. <\/span><\/p>\n His employer, acting swiftly, sent <\/span>N1 million<\/span> to stall the abductors while notifying the police.<\/span><\/p>\n During the operation, police recovered a <\/span>grey Toyota Camry<\/span>, <\/span>$2,000 cash<\/span>, <\/span>three ATM cards<\/span>, a <\/span>green card<\/span>, a <\/span>driver\u2019s license<\/span>, and a <\/span>National Identity Number (NIN) slip<\/span> from the suspects.<\/span><\/p>\n The rescued victim is now safe and has reestablished contact with his family, while police intensify efforts to track down the fleeing gang members.<\/span><\/p>\n Lagos Commissioner of Police, CP Olohundare Jimoh, commended the swift police action, reassuring residents of the command\u2019s commitment to stamping out crime. <\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has reaffirmed his directive to eliminate kidnapping and violent crimes across Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lagos police have arrested two Pakistani nationals, aged 19 and 28, for allegedly kidnapping a fellow 48-year-old Pakistani who was lured from Kano under false pretenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[505,10250,10249,62],"class_list":["post-22522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kidnappers","tag-n50m-ransom","tag-pakistani","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22524,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22522\/revisions\/22524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}