Lagos state police command denies reports of a kidnapping attempt in Victory estate, says men in viral video had gone to the estate to visit a friend

The Lagos state police command have denied reports of a kidnapping attempt in the Okota area of the state.

A video making the rounds on social media shows three men being interrogated by some residents of Victory estate in the Okoto area of the state. In the viral video, the suspected assailants claimed they were in the estate to abduct someone.

However in a statement released this evening, the spokesperson of the Lagos state police command, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, said in response to the viral video, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Olohundare Moshood Jimoh, today held a fact-finding meeting with the Chairman, Chief Security Officer, two other residents of Victory Estate and one of the men alleged in the video.

‘’After an extensive interview, it has been undisputedly proven that the three (3) men in the video are not kidnappers and there was no kidnapping incident at the Estate. The Chairman of the Estate Association told the CP that the people are not kidnappers, so also the Chief Security Officer and another Security Committee member equally told the CP that the three (3) men are not kidnappers and that there was no kidnapping incident at the Estate as seen falsely spread in the social media.

It is concluded that the video is false, misleading and malicious to cause fear and apprehension in the Estate. The men had indeed gone to see their friend (who was also present at the CP’s meeting) at the Estate at about 10pm on Monday, February 17, 2025. An altercation between the three (3) men and a tricycle rider degenerated into pandemonium and confusion in the Estate at that time.”