The Ogun
State police command has rescued a boy and a girl from a suspected kidnapper.
According to the state police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, an Assistant
Superintendent of police (ASP), the 28-year-old suspect identified as Abiodun
Joseph, allegedly kidnapped a 12-year-old girl, Tobiloba Aleshiloye and a boy,
Yussuf Kudus, aged eight.
He said:
“The suspect who resides at No. 10, Canaanland, Sango Ota, abducted the two
children on September 15, 2017 and took them to unknown place from where he
started demanding the sum of N150,000 per child from parents of the abducted
children.
“The case
was reported to the police at Agbara Division and detectives were detailed to
be on the trail of the kidnapper. Technical investigation was conducted, the
hideout of the suspect was located in a hotel at Ojoo area of Ibadan, and the
place was stormed by detectives, where the suspect was arrested and victims
rescued unhurt.
“The
Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of
the case to Anti-kidnapping/Cultist Unit of the Criminal Investigations and
Intelligence Department, while the two children have been re-united with their
parents.
The police
boss also appealed to members of the public to take security of their children
seriously in order not to make them victims of kidnappers.
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