Lagos Kidnap: 12 Of Us Planned It—Suspect

Leader of the gang that abducted three female students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos last Monday, Emmanuel Arigidi, has explained how they planned and carried out the operation.

Arigidi told journalists on Sunday in Alausa, Ikeja, that 12 of them were involved in the abduction.

According to him, the operation was planned at Majidun area of Ikorodu and executed at about 8pm at the school premises.

Arigidi told newsmen that he had kicked against it because of the tight security situation in Lagos, but that he was threatened with death by other members of his group.

“We went to Maya bridge to enter canoe and went to the school around 8pm. After we gained entrance into the school, we took away three girls and we took them to our hideout.

“But along the line, we had disagreement between ourselves and I was actually the one that started it. I told other members of the gang that what we have done is not good and that I don’t like it.

“I know that security in Lagos State is now tight and I was telling others that there was no way we would get away with this kind of job considering the level of security in the state.

“When I told them that we should end the assignment, other members of the gang threatened to kill me and then I took Canoe to run away,” the kidnap kingpin said.

Speaking further, the suspect narrated that, “Three days after I ran away, operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, then arrested me somewhere in Majidun and that was how I told them how we planned the attack.

“One thing I will like to say is that if not for the fact that I was arrested, they would not have seen the girls because I was the one that revealed everything to the police.”