Bandits kidnap Mohamed Fouani, MD LG, and Hisense products in Nigeria
Bandits kidnap Fouani Group MD Mohamed Fouani, two others in downtown Lagos ambush; demand $1.5 million ransom
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 State.
Fouani Group, run by Mohamed Fouani and other prominent Lebanese business people, is the major distributor of LG and Hisense products in Nigeria. The company itself has yet to issue a statement on the incident.
The abductors had contacted people near the victims for a ransom of $1.5 million.
A Lagos police 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 neighborhood, where security had long been assumed to be above frequent breaches by motivated assailants.
