Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fayode Adegoke, has urged Nigerians to stop paying ransom to kidnappers.
The commissioner stressed that the payment of ransom to kidnappers by families of those kidnapped should be stopped, noting that “it is not acceptable”. The payment of ransom, he said is making the nefarious business of kidnapping thrive.
He said this while speaking on TVC’s Your View programme on Wednesday.
Adegoke in December 2023 become the state Commissioner of Police. He replaced Idowu Owohunwa, who was recently promoted to the rank of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police.
Recently, the state’s Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Philip Aivoji, alongside some other party chieftains was abducted by some yet-to-identified gunmen along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Also, in December 2023, the family of a 13-year-old schoolgirl, Miracle Adereti, called on the police to locate the whereabouts of their daughter, who was kidnapped by an unknown gang in the Ikotun area of Lagos State.
Miracle was said to have been kidnapped while returning from school, and it was gathered that the kidnappers trailed her to school in the morning and waited till the closing period.
