By Nchetachi Chukwuajah
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspects for allegedly kidnapping and killing a 17-year-old candidate of the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), Thompson Adams, in the Ikorodu area of the state.
The state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Tijani, disclosed this on Wednesday, April 29, while addressing journalists at the command headquarters in Ikeja.
Tijani said the suspects, identified as Elijah Emmanuel, 23, and Tony Ogenata, 21, were arrested on Monday, April 27, at about 8 pm, following credible intelligence.
The Lagos police boss said investigations revealed that Adams was returning from the UTME examination on Wednesday, April 22, when the incident happened.
He explained that the suspects lured the victim, who was their secondary schoolmate, to their apartment and killed him in the process
Tijani said, “On April 27, 2026, at about 20.00 hours, operatives of the command, acting on credible intelligence, traced and arrested suspected kidnappers at Lucky Fibre, Ikorodu, Lagos.
“The suspects are Elijah Emmanuel, 23, and Tony Ekwen Ogenata, 21. Criminal investigation revealed that the suspects are linked to the kidnapping and gruesome murder of one Thompson Adams, aged 17, which occurred on April 22, 2026.
“The two boys went out with their friend, Adams, who was their secondary schoolmate. Along the line, they murdered him.”
He further disclosed that the suspects later kept the body in a bag and disposed of it somewhere in the community.
The CP added that further interrogation found that the suspects were involved in an earlier crime involving a female victim who was killed in November 2025.
He said, “Investigation revealed that they had earlier kidnapped and murdered a female victim on November 30, 2025. The victim was a girlfriend of one of them. They contacted her parents and demanded ransom.”
Tijani said the victim’s family paid N300,000 as ransom, but the suspects killed her after collecting the money.
He said the suspects would be charged to court upon the conclusion of investigations.
