TVC E. The operatives of the special anti-robbery squad on Saturday June 11, arrested a notorious kingpin, Felix Sylva aka tradition at his hide out in the Arepo area of Ogun state
The Delta state born Felix, 37 years old, confessed to masterminding the kidnaps of 3 school girls of the Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary in Ikorodu as well as the kidnap of a construction manager in the Igando area of the state to which a ransome of N300,000 and N250,000 was demanded as ransom respectively.
According to reports, while the kingpin was being paraded at the state police command headquarters, Ikeja, he confessed to have coordinated three operations, identifying the third as the abduction of a manager of a cement factory.
Felix said “Lamiameni and I got the job of the Ikorodu school girls for our gang. There was a third leader, called Millions. In the end, I made N300,000 from the schoolgirls’ abduction. I was a timber dealer in Delta State before coming to Lagos State.
“I stayed in the Majidun area and I have two children. I went with the gang on the day we abducted the schoolgirls. Lamiameni and others held guns. I did not. My role was to talk to the families of the schoolgirls after the whole operation.
“We carried them through the bushes. I did not let anyone rape them. If a gang member should rape any victim, we would kill him. After the Ikorodu incident, I fled to the Igbo Olomu area. It was at Igbo Olomu that I coordinated the kidnap of the Chinese manager. I got N250,000 from that operation.
“I have coordinated only three kidnap operations in Lagos State. The third was at a cement factory. It was Amos (Loko), alias Mosquito, who brought the job of the Chinese man. I was trailed and arrested in the Arepo area. I was with my girlfriend when the policemen came to arrest me. I am called Tradition because my father is an Ijaw herbalist.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said the command would not relent in going after criminals, adding that the suspects would be charged to court after investigation had been concluded.
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