Suspects behind Turkish school kidnap confess to killing popular journalist Aisha Ali-Balogun and kidnapping her daughter

Two more suspects who took part in the kidnap of 8 schoolgirls and staff of Nigeria Turkish International College (NTIC) Ogun state, last month, have been nabbed by the police command in Abuja.

L-R: Bekewel Agbojule aka. Prince Yellow, Are Philip Joel Kakadu,Romeo Council aka “Raw”, and Totki Okoda alleged kidnappers paraded by Police Photo credit

Further investigations revealed that the suspects are the same people who killed popular comedy show presenter Aisha Ali-Balogun in December 2016 and kidnapped her 2-year-old daughter together with six others.

According to Vanguard, Alex Super, also known as Yanga and Egbasimokumo Ayeomi, were arrested last Monday night at Majidun/Ajegunle Area of Ikorodu, Lagos state, few hours after they left their camp, inside the Ikorodu creeks.

The sum of N3 million was also recovered from the latest suspects.

Ali-Balogun’s 2-year-old daughter and six others were abducted by the gunmen who stormed the Ikorodu road clad in military uniforms, shooting indiscriminately during the operation.

Six other suspects, including a militant general Philip Joel, also known as General Kakadu and a nurse, Felicia Weinoh, who specialized in treating ailing victims and members of the kidnapping gang terrorizing Lagos and Ogun states, were earlier arrested.

The suspects confessed, saying they collected N2m each from the ransom paid for the release of the NTIC victims and also explained how his gang killed Alli-Balogun in 2016.

"My gang leader, American, was the one who killed Alli-Balogun. He told us that when he stopped her car, she sped off and he shot her because she almost killed him with the car. That it was after killing her that he abducted her daughter. We're paid N500,000, before we released the 2–year-old girl,” he said.

Some gunmen had stormed NTIC through a hole dug under the school fence and headed for the female hostel, where three pupils were abducted.

A Turkish teacher, a supervisor, a matron and two intending candidates of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, who worked in the school, were also whisked away by the assailants.

The kidnappers had contacted the matron’s husband and demanded N100m while the police were under pressure to rescue the victims safely.

However, operatives said they were exercising restraints to storm the possible locations of the suspects in the creeks in order not to endanger the lives of the victims.