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Date: Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:04 AM
Subject: ||NaijaObserver|| Today in Lagos: Kidnapped American CHILD rescued
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From: Igboka Uwadiegwu <igboka.uwadiegwu@rocketmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:04 AM
Subject: ||NaijaObserver|| Today in Lagos: Kidnapped American CHILD rescued
To: "NaijaObserver@yahoogroups.com" <NaijaObserver@yahoogroups.com>
Lagos Police rescue kidnapped American school's pupil
The police in Lagos have rescued an American International School pupil who was kidnapped about two weeks ago on his way to school.
Policemen attached to Ikoyi division trailed the suspected kidnappers to a forest in Ilaro, an Ogun community, where the victim was kept under watch pending when ransom would be paid.
It was gathered that the rescue operation led to the death of one of the suspects during an exchange of fire with the police. A police Corporal, The Nation learnt, was stabbed twice by the suspected kidnappers in an attempt to evade arrest.
Police sources said the alleged mastermind of the kidnap was the boy's family's driver who usually drops the teenager in school. The driver was identified as Adebayo John.
A ransom of N60 million was allegedly demanded from the victim's father.
It was learnt that when information on the abduction reached the Area 'A' Command, it ordered the police operatives to fish out the suspects and rescue the victim alive.
Police sources said the police detectives immediately commenced the monitoring of the suspects to trace the location from where they were calling their victim's family.
Operatives traced the suspects to a hideout in Ogun State and stormed the place.
Police operatives reportedly spent about four days scouting for the suspects until last Thursday when they arrested one of them.
It was during interrogation that the arrested suspect disclosed where the kidnapped teenager was kept.
Two members of the kidnap gang were said to have been waiting in the bush for the ransom last Friday, when operatives stormed the place.
One of the suspects reportedly brought out a knife and stabbed one of the plain-clothe policemen twice in the head, while the others opened fire on the other policemen. But he was eventually shot dead.
The deceased, as gathered during investigations, was said to be a sibling of the driver who allegedly masterminded the boy's abduction.
Three of the suspects were said to have been whisked to Lagos for further investigation. It was gathered that they would be paraded this week.
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