No fewer than 34 job scam victims from neighbouring African countries, were rescued by the Lagos State Police command in a duplex on Omola Road, in the Edemola area of Epe, Lagos.
Disclosing this to newsmen, the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hudenyin, clarified that they were not kidnapped victims as insinuated in some quarters.
“They are not kidnapped victims, they were deceived by some Cameroonians that there were jobs in Nigeria, only to be stranded because they have expended all their money. All of them have been taken to the police station.
“The ring leader is on the run.He gave all of them the same arrival date, when they arrived, he collected their money from them,asked them to stay in that room , left with a promise to be back, only to abandon them and went back to Cameroon”, he said.
News had filtered around Epe and the entire Lagos State that the rescued persons, foreigners, were kidnapped and kept in the kidnappers’ den, pending when ransom would be paid for their release.
A trader, who simply identified herself as Iya Modunat, said, “ A resident of the area alerted the traditional ruler of the community of unusual movements in the building at odd hours. Nobody knew any of the occupants, or what they did, they didn’t interact with people.
“ Thereafter, the authorities including members of the vigilante group were invited here today( yesterday). About 70 of them were brought out of the building, with their luggage.”
”They were all foreigners. Among them were 20 children”.
metronetworknews with vanguard report
