Armed assailants on Friday seized Mohamed Fouani of electronic distributor Fouani Group, as well as at least two others, during a deadly ambush in Ikoyi, Lagos, according to sources familiar with the development.

Police spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin told Peoples Gazette he was not yet briefed on the attack Saturday afternoon but maintained an investigation had already commenced to unravel the situation. Multiple sources with information said it occurred near Falomo Bridge.

Fouani Group, run by Mohamed Fouani and other prominent Lebanese businesspeople, is the major distributor of LG and Hisense products in Nigeria. The company itself has yet to issue a statement on the incident.

Sources said the abductors had contacted people near the victims for a ransom of $1.5 million. The Gazette was unable to independently authenticate this demand or whether or not it came from the abductors.

A Lagos police source said the incident would likely unnerve the command, which had hitherto boasted of its capacity to keep kidnap-for-ransom activities low across the state even as they spread in other parts of the country.

Most expatriates and diplomats in Nigeria are based in Lagos, especially in the highbrow Ikoyi neighbourhood, where security had long been assumed to be above frequent breaches by motivated assailants.

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Hand go surely touch the kidnappers. Seun Kuti don kuku tell us the people behind major kidnapping in Nigeria.

Las las na insider job go be.

Once kidnapping enters Lagos, Naija economy don hear am. Many of these foreign nationals are experts in their fields. Once they disappear due to fear, the industry they’re crucial to will crash from African mismanagement. I’ve seen this happen time without number in my field.

Things have gotten serious

They'll be caught! Greed is a major reason these guys are caught, and these ones have taken their greed to a whole new level! $1.5m? That's over 2 billion naira! They'll be caught, and soon!

That's too much

Police need to rescue him without paying any ransom

E don red o boiz don show face for Lagos


Genius J

.....the abductors had contacted people near the victims for a ransom of $1.5 million.

That's ridiculous....sorry man for doing salah in kiddnaping den...whereas our GCFR is currently busy eating salah meat in Lagos

It's well

Let them pay

When a terrorist in charge of their security and a fraud is in charge of their economy at the same time praying for foreign investors...

TheDemola:
Kidnappers don enter Lagos?!!

Shebi Tinubu is working?

madridguy:
Hand go surely touch the kidnappers. Seun Kuti don kuku tell us the people behind major kidnapping in Nigeria.

Las las na insider job go be.

Same thing you guys said for Buhari 8 years, after supporting nonsense into office back to back...

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$1.5m times N1495, may God heal and protect Nigeria.

Ikoyi of all places no safe.

Now to use boat na wahala.

Boat shooting no be land. Even police wey no sabi swim go surrender.

Lol.

Today it is fouani ceo

If this is successful then tomorrow more of this will occur.

I am sure they wont blame Evans.

Lol.

Na so the person get money? How dem wan take collect that ransom n not get caught soo

Omo dem don come lagos too??

Kidnapping don finally enter lagos

Right in Tinubu's lagos


Wonderful!

Does kidnapping happen in Lagos ?

See the kind of high profile ransom they're asking for. Quoting Dollars 💵

The audacity



Everywhere is so porous in Nigeria.


It keeps getting worse by the day.

A failed State
Nowhere is safe

This is a very serious issue and big dent on Lagos image

So kidnappers located this LG business mogul.

Kiddnaping is organized crime in Nigeria. Evans self dey learn work

NNtv:
That's too much

Police need to rescue him without paying any ransom

Wrong target.

Kidnap people that hold plenary una no gree.

See what Poverty has cause!

Nigeria is gone...

May God protect us daily..

Hope it wont be tagged IPOB. Just saying

Like what is said under my comment

Kidnappers don enter Lagos?!!