Some furnished shooters at the weekend raged the Iba Community at the Iba Local Council Development Area of Lagos State and abducted the conventional ruler, Goriola Oseni.
As indicated by an observer record, the shooters, numbering around 16, had raged the group in two vessels and reported their nearness by shooting sporadically into the air.
In spite of the fact that points of interest of the assault were still crude at press time, it was assembled that the group had killed an individual from the nearby vigilante furthermore supposedly shot and harmed the spouse of the customary ruler.
Subsequent to threatening the group, the shooters carried off the conventional ruler and left in their pontoons through.
Then, the consolidated exertion of agents of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), the Ikorodu Police Division of the Lagos State Police Command and some nearby vigilante at the Ikorodu range of the state, yesterday night thwarted a grab endeavor made on the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), Chairman of Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) specialists.
The 10-man group had hailed the NUPENG director right in his home and had baffled his entryway with projectiles while attempting to obtain entrance and when the hijack endeavor fizzled, they got away with an auto and two motorbikes.
The grab group had focused on the NUPENG Chairman, Rasaq Alabi, and would have effectively whisked him away to obscure parts however for the brisk reaction of the police group drove by the RRS Commander, Olatunji Disu, an Assistant Commissioner of Police.
The agents, while reacting to the hints of sporadic shots at Agbede at the Owutu and Agric Area of Ikorodu, at around 11.30p.m. at the weekend, had keep running into the group and thwarted their assault.
Talking by virtue of namelessness, a senior cop who addressed THISDAY said: "We were cautioned about some sporadic shooting at Ikorodu. Our men were conveyed there and they found that it was a seize endeavor.
"The objective was the NUPENG PTD Chairman, Rasaq Alabi. With the assistance of the neighborhood vigilante, we could repulse the posse and thwarted the capture endeavor."
Whenever reached, the RRS Commander, ACP Olatunji Disu, said: "We touched base at the Agbede region of Owutu in Ikorodu with the Owutu divisional cop and found the shooting was an endeavor to hijack NUPENG PTD Chairman, Rasaq Alabi.
"It was the fast reaction of the police and vigilante men that abandoned the hijack endeavor yet the group got away.
"We were additionally there to do the Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni's mandate to secure and watch the emergencies regions of Ikorodu and it paid off as we could react in record time."
Source: Thisday.
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