The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Tijani Fatai, yesterday revealed how four suspected kidnappers neutralised at Jakande Gate in the Ejigbo area of Lagos allegedly spent four days in the state finalising plans before launching an attack on May 24, 2026.
Fatai disclosed this while presenting the command’s operational breakthroughs for May 2026, including the foiling of kidnapping attempts, arrest of armed robbery and cultism suspects, recovery of stolen vehicles, firearms, ammunition and cash linked to criminal activities.
Speaking on the kidnapping incident, the police commissioner said the gang specialised in targeting wealthy businessmen and usually entered Lagos to carry out attacks on unsuspecting victims.
According to him, police operatives received intelligence that the gang was planning to strike and abduct a prominent businessman.
He further disclosed that additional intelligence linked the gang leader, identified as Ifeanyi, also known as “Ifeko,” to the training of one Henry Asoona, alleged leader of the billionaire kidnappers earlier neutralised at the Ladipo International Spare Parts Market in 2024.
Fatai said Ifeanyi, who is reportedly based abroad, came to Lagos alongside gang members from the South-East to carry out the operation. He stated that police operatives responded with superior firepower, resulting in the death of four gang members, while another suspect escaped with bullet wounds.
The commissioner added that within the period under review, the command arrested 10 suspects and recovered double-barrel pump-action guns, three AK-47 rifles, two submachine guns, a revolver, a short pistol, one fabricated pistol, three locally made pistols, six magazines, 42 rounds of live ammunition, a dummy gun, a TVS motorcycle, an axe and other weapons.
He said,m: “On May 24, 2026, at about 5:30 p.m., operatives of the command arrested 57-year-old Akintayo Wasiu in Ibadan, Oyo State, in possession of a stolen Toyota Hiace Space Bus.
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