- Days ago, there was a massive shootout between the Nigerian police, the Lagos command and a gang of kidnappers
- During the Ladipo Market shootout, eight of the kidnappers were killed, and one was gruesomely injured
- Reports about one of the kidnappers being a powerful Nollywood movie producer and an up-and-coming Port-Harcourt-based actor have gone viral
The Nigerian social media space has been on overdrive after reports about a Nollywood movie producer and actor fingered to be the ring leaders of a kidnapping group who were recently nullified by the Lagos SWAT team.
The Nigerian police have identified the powerful Nollywood movie producer Ason Rich as the leader of the nine-men kidnapping gang.
Apart from Ason Rich, the fast-rising Nollywood actor Prince Henry Odenigbo was also identified as one of the men shot dead by the Nigerian police.