The police have discovered some of the ways kidnap gangs used to get their victims.
The discovery was made known by Police spokesman, Mr. Moshood Jimoh in an interview he granted The Nation while giving an update on the ongoing police investigation of suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans.
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Jimoh said one of the modus operandi kidnappers employed to source for their victims was to jog in estates where the rich live, adding that they also have ‘catchers’.
“There is a special group of criminal suspects that are referred to as ‘catchers’; in criminal syndicates, they are the people that identify targets and give information about innocent, law-abiding people and more of such suspects are being rounded up.
“Part of our investigation reveals that Evans himself jogs round the estate where he lives every morning and uses that opportunity to assess information on those potential victims that have what they describe as ‘kidnap value’.
“It was after his arrest that some of his surprised neighbours realized that it was this man that used to jog around; that is why security-consciousness necessitates that every citizen should be alert and see things beyond their noses now,” Jimoh told the paper.
