20-year-old kidnapper, 2 others arrested in Lagos as they try to escape with ransom money

The kidnappers were arrested in connection with series of abductions that had been going on in the Epe area of the state.

Earlier, they had abducted a female police sergeant, named Bola who is attached to the Ketu division.

She was abducted in February 2017 at Omu-Ijebu, a border town between Lagos and Ogun state, also a lawyer and a farmer were also kidnapped in Ogbodu community in Epe. 

According to Vanguard, Aboy, who gave the identity of his gang leader as Tallest, said he joined the kidnap gang three months ago.

He also said: "My first operation was the one involving a female police officer. “We came out from the creeks in two speed boats and laid ambush at the Molajoye Bridge. Just then, we saw a vehicle carrying five passengers. "We came out when it got to the bridge, pounced on the passengers and took them into our boats.

They were three women and two men. "We headed to our camp and kept them for five days.

It was while we were at the camp that we discovered that one of them was a policewoman." Aboy also explained that after they collected N200,000 from the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Ketu and an additional N300,000 from the police woman’s family that they released her.