The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended two individuals in connection with the abduction and murder of a 17-year-old Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Thompson Adams, in the Ikorodu area of the state.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Tijani, disclosed this during a press briefing at the command headquarters in Ikeja on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. He identified the suspects as Elijah Emmanuel, 23, and Tony Ogenata, 21, who were arrested on Monday at approximately 8 p.m. based on credible intelligence.
According to Tijani, investigations revealed that Adams was returning from the examination hall on Wednesday, April 22, when the incident occurred. The suspects, who were former secondary schoolmates of the victim, lured him to their apartment and killed him.
“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,” Tijani said. “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.”
The police commissioner further stated that the suspects later placed the body in a bag and disposed of it somewhere in the community. Additionally, further interrogation exposed their involvement in an earlier crime involving a female victim who was killed in November 2025.
“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. He noted that the victim’s family paid N300,000 as ransom, but the suspects still killed her after collecting the money.
“After collecting the N300,000, they still went ahead and murdered the lady,” he added. The police boss confirmed that the suspects would be charged in court upon the conclusion of investigations.
