Police Rescue 28 from Kidnappers Den in Lagos

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Twenty-Eight abducted persons have been rescued from a kidnapper’s den in a Lagos suburb.
According to the police, the victims including 13 children and 15 adults were found chained and locked up in a remote nook at a place in Oke-Ira, Ojodu, on the outskirts of Lagos.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, revealed today that his men who acted on a tip-off rescued the victims and arrested their suspected abductor named as Emmanuel Adeyemi.
Officers who went on the operation from Area ‘G’ headquarters, Ogba, were hoping to rescue one Toba Adedoyin, 17, from his abductors in a house at Oyinbo Unity Estate, Olamidun Close, Yakoyo, Oke-Ira, Ojodu, but they got more than they bargained for when they combed the premises and found 27 other victims chained like Adedoyin.
Lagos police spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, said Adeyemi had earlier claimed to be Adedoyin’s father, when officers stormed the house and found the teenager in a room with his legs chained.
Badmos said: “A total of 28 persons, comprising, six men, nine women, seven girls and six boys were rescued and taken to protective custody.”