Three persons have been arrested over last Thursday’s kidnap of six pupils of Lagos State Model College in Igbonla, Epe, The Nation learnt yesterday.
The pupils – Yusuf Farouk, Ramon Isiaka, Pelumi Phillips, Peter Jonas, Adebanjo George and Judah Agbaosi – were snatched away from their school premises.
The kidnappers contacted some of the parents, demanding N400 million ransom.
They had also threatened to relocate the children to the South south creeks should the parents fail to pay the ransom.
The suspects are believed to be members of a gang that is behind kidnappings in Epe and its environs.
The gang is believed to have been involved in the kidnapping of the Oniba of Iba and pupils and workers of the Turkish International School in Isheri North of Ogun State.
Egelu Endurance, 25, aka Jubby, Stanley Yomi Irabomini (Powei), 25, and Bentel Endurance, 24— all from Ovia South Local Government Area of Edo State — were arrested on Tuesday in Benin City by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT).
The IRT operatives, led by Abba Kyari, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), arrested the suspects when they (the suspects) visited an injured colleague.
He was said to have been injured during a gun battle with the police. It could not be ascertained where the gun battle took place.
The suspects, according to sources, had confessed to participating in several high profile kidnappings in the South.
