Four suspected internet fraudsters popularly known as Yahoo Boys are currently being investigated by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for kidnapping their colleague.
NigeriaCrime.com learned that the suspects identified as Agbe Simeon, Messiah Nicky, Oladapo Dolapo and Yetunde Shonola were arrested for abducting their colleague over sharing of proceeds of their fraud business on Monday, 26th of December 2022 at Orile imo village in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The suspects were apprehended following information received by the Police at Owode Egba Divisional Headquarters, that Haruna Usman, who had been abducted on Thursday, 22nd of December 2022, is being held hostage somewhere in Orile Imo.
Based on the information, the DPO Owode Egba Division, CSP Popoola Olasunkanmi, quickly mobilised his men and stormed the area, where four of the abductors were apprehended while two others escaped.
Confirming the arrest, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Police Command said preliminary investigation revealed that the victim and the suspects belong to an internet fraudster syndicate and that they recently swindled somebody whose identity is not yet known of the sum of twenty six million, four hundred and thirty seven thousand, nine hundred and fifty naira (N26,437,950), but the victim only gave the sum of N2,200 to his other colleagues, claiming that the money has not been paid completely by their client.”
“This infuriated his colleagues who then lured him to a herbalist home at Orile Imo and held him, hostage, there since Thursday, 22nd of December 2022, with a threat to kill him there if he refused to give them their complete share.”
But while they were there, information got to the police who moved in, rescue the victim and apprehended four amongst the abductors, while others escaped.”
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the suspects be transferred to Anti kidnapping unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and possible prosecution.