The Lagos State Police Command has detained two suspected kidnappers in connection with the kidnapping and killing of Thompson Adams, a 17-year-old candidate for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, in the state’s Ikorodu district.
Fatai Tijani, the state commissioner of police, stated this to journalists on Wednesday at the command headquarters in Ikeja.
Tijani said the suspects, Elijah Emmanuel, 23, and Tony Ogenata, 21, were apprehended on Monday about 8 p.m. based on solid intelligence.
According to his findings, Adams was returning from the examination hall on Wednesday, April 22, when the event occurred.
The CP claimed that the suspects brought the deceased, a secondary schoolmate, to their residence and killed him in the process.
According to his findings, Adams was returning from the examination hall on Wednesday, April 22, when the event occurred.
The CP claimed that the suspects brought the deceased, a secondary schoolmate, to their residence and killed him in the process.
He said, “On April 27, 2026, at about 20.00 hours, operatives of the command, acting on credible intelligence, traced and arrested suspected kidnappers at Lucky Fibre, Ikorodu, Lagos.
“The suspects are Elijah Emmanuel, 23, and Tony Ekwen Ogenata, 21. Criminal investigation revealed that the suspects are linked to the kidnapping and gruesome murder of one Thompson Adams, aged 17, which occurred on April 22, 2026. The two boys went out with their friend, Adams, who was their secondary schoolmate. Along the line, they murdered him.”
He also revealed that the suspects later kept the body in a bag and disposed of it somewhere in the community.
Tijani did, however, disclose that subsequent interrogation revealed the suspects’ participation in a previous incident involving a female victim who was killed in November 2025.
He said, “Investigation revealed that they had earlier kidnapped and murdered a female victim on November 30, 2025. The victim was a girlfriend of one of them. They contacted her parents and demanded ransom.”
Tijani disclosed that the victim’s family paid N300,000 as ransom, but the suspects still killed her after collecting the money.
“After collecting the N300,000, they still went ahead and murdered the lady,” he added.
The police chief noted that the suspects would be charged to court upon the conclusion of investigations.
