A man identified as Felix Akeze, a staff of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, is reportedly holding his wife and children hostage with gun at their residence in Chevron Drive, Lekki, Lagos State.
Reports said the wife who is from Aku in Igbo Etiti LGA, Enugu State, alerted one of her brothers through the phone early Monday morning.
She told him that the husband said she must pay all the money he spent on her and their children else he will kill all of them.
It was gathered that security men at the estate who have arrived the house at 5b, Toyosi Adetoro Street, together with some policemen from Ajah Division are making frantic efforts to gain access into the compound and rescue the victims.