Kidnappers Arrested For Killing Two Bureau de Change Operators After Collecting N1.6m

Three individuals from a syndicate who purportedly abducted slaughtered two authority de change administrators in Ikorodu zone of Lagos have been captured by agents of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

Compact News accumulated that the people in question, Yakubu Musa and Hassan Umoru, had gone to complete a business exchange with the syndicate on March 14, 2019.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Zubairu Mu'azu, was said to have guided the SARS agents to examine the issue when the team were accounted for missing.

Amid the examination and consequent capture of the suspects – Oluwatosin Olarewaju, Mayowa Olawuni and Babatunde Idris – the groups of the administrators were apparently followed to a septic tank in a deserted structure.

In any case, it was found out that the associated pioneer with the syndicate got away.

In his confession booth articulation, Olanrewaju said the group bound and shot dead the exploited people in a relinquished structure in the Odogunyan territory of Ikorodu after the men paid N1.6m into a record they gave.

He stated, "Our pioneer, Pencil, and I arranged the arrangement. Pencil said I ought to persuade the administrators to come that an Alhaja needed to purchase $10,000.

"The administrators went ahead a cruiser and called us from Trailer Park transport stop, Odogunyan. Pencil requested that another bike rider take the administrators to a young men's quarters around Odogunyan. When I went along with them at the young men's quarters, I met them resting with their hands bound. Pencil requested that I lie on the floor too to make it appear as though I didn't play a part in the arrangement.

"Pencil revealed to them that the Alhaja they came to meet owed him $10,000 and that his pack came to gather the cash. They beat up the administrators and I likewise got a considerable amount of the beating to make it look genuine.

"The administrators asked Pencil to quit beating them; that they would give him cash for their opportunity. Pencil educated them to move the cash into a record. Be that as it may, when he called to know whether the cash had been paid, the record holder said no."

Olanrewaju said Pencil changed the course of action and executed the administrators to conceal.

"At the point that Pencil changed the arrangement, he took steps to slaughter me close by the administrators in the event that he didn't get a caution on the installment. He said he speculated I was pulling tricks by asking the individual at the opposite end not to uncover that he had gotten the caution.

"One of the administrators at that point recommended that another record ought to be given to him to pay into. That was the point at which I reached a medical attendant who treated me when I was debilitated. The BDC administrators paid in N1.6m to that account.

"By 8pm same day, Pencil and the pack individuals tore the administrators' garments and utilized them to cover their mouths. When I asked him for what valid reason he was doing that, he inquired as to whether I needed to show him his activity. He took one of the administrators to the terrace and later sent for the second one. He shot them two dead and said that was the best way to cover our tracks since the administrators definitely knew me.

"A while later, we reached the attendant and she pulled back N500,000 at first. She later gave us another N500,000 and an equalization of N470,000. I got N340,000 as a lot of the arrangement."

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, affirmed the occurrence, including that examination was continuous.