The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspected kidnappers in connection with the abduction and killing of a 17-year-old candidate of the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, Thompson Adams, in the Ikorodu area of the state.
The Commissioner of Police, Fatai Tijani, disclosed this on Wednesday while briefing journalists at the command headquarters in Ikeja.
According to him, the suspects; Elijah Emmanuel, 23, and Tony Ogenata, 21, were apprehended on April 27 at about 8:00 p.m. at Lucky Fibre, Ikorodu, following credible intelligence.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the victim, who had just written his examination on April 22, was lured by the suspects, said to be his former secondary schoolmates, to their apartment, where he was killed.
“Operatives of the command, acting on credible intelligence, traced and arrested the suspects. Findings show that they went out with their friend, Adams, and subsequently murdered him,” Tijani said.
He added that the suspects concealed the victim’s body in a bag before disposing of it within the community.
Further interrogation, the police said, uncovered the suspects’ alleged involvement in a previous incident in November 2025, in which a female victim, reportedly the girlfriend of one of the suspects, was kidnapped and killed.
According to the police, the suspects demanded and received a ransom of N300,000 from the victim’s family but still proceeded to kill her.
The Commissioner of Police stated that the suspects would be charged to court upon the conclusion of investigations.