On Tuesday night, Ogun State Police
shot five suspected kidnappers after a failed attempt to collect a
N100 million ransom.
Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi,The command’s Public Relations Officer
(PPRO), said this yesterday while parading the
corpses of the suspected kidnappers to reporters at the Egba Owode
Divisional Police Headquarters in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area.
Oyeyemi said the kidnappers had engaged
the police in a shootout during the rescue of the victim, who had been
in captivity for five days.
He said the suspects had on Friday
waylaid the victim, dragged him out of his car at gun point and took him
to a forest, where they kept him for five days.
The spokesman explained that the
kidnappers within the period the victim was in their custody made
contact with his family to demand the sum of N100 million.
Following the development, he said the
Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ilyasu, gave a marching order for the
rescue of the victim and arrest of the suspects.
He said the police raided the hideout
in the forest and five of the suspects died in the ensuing shootout. One
suspect escaped with bullet wounds.
Oyeyemi, however, gave an assurance that the fleeing gang member would soon be arrested.
The victim, Stephen Adesokan, said he
was driving on the Ajura-Ogere road in Obafemi-Owode Local Government
Area when the suspects accosted him.
Adesokan, the orderly to the
Divisional Police Officer of Ibara Divisional Police Headquarters in
Abeokuta, said he was full of gratitude to God and the command for
rescuing him.
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