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Arrested Suspect Reveals NTIC Kidnappers’ Identities

This is not the news that Nigerians have been waiting for.

But detectives hunting kidnappers of students and workers at a school in Ogun State appear to be making some progress.

Five days after the victims were kidnapped at Nigerian-Turkish International College (NTIC), the police have held two suspects who allegedly identified those involved in the operation.

Newsmakers learnt that one of the suspects is a 29-year-old militant, Phillip Joel Kakadu, aka General Kakadu. He was arrested in Warri, Delta State.

The other is Romeo Council, aka Raw.

The Two Suspects in Police Net

Kakadu allegedly revealed that the kidnap at NTIC was a joint operation involving 15 men supplied by three militant gangs.

A source close to the investigation told Newsmakers: “Gen. Kakadu has named two other militant gangs led by one Gen. O.C and one Gen. Agbala from the creeks in Lagos and Ogun.”

According to him, Kakadu revealed that his gang has 32 men and 25 AK47 rifles; O.C has the largest gang with 100 men, and Agbala has 30.

For the NTIC operation, Kakadu deployed five of his men. There were eight from O.C., and two from Agbala.

“With Technical Intelligence Support from the Technical Intelligence Unit, Phillip Joel Kakadu, a native of Egbema Kingdom in Warri was arrested by the IGP’s Intelligence Response Team along with a member of his gang named Romeo Council, aka Raw; a 40-year-old native of Bomadi LGA in Delta State,” the police source told Newsmakers.

A total of N1.2billion was demanded as ransom for the eight people abducted at the school on Friday night.

The kidnappers placed N300million ransom on each of the two Turkish nationals among the victims and N100million each on the six other victims including three female students.

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