Gunmen
suspected to be kidnappers have killed a Pastor identified as Oluwafemi
Komolafe along the Benin-Ijebu Ode Expressway at Ore in the Odigbo Local
Government Area of Ondo State. According to reports, the deceased was traveling
with his son, Timilehin, when the suspected kidnappers attacked him.
The Ondo
State Commissioner of Police, Gbenga Adeyanju, told newsmen, yesterday, that
the kidnappers had abducted Timileyin but that the police has been able to
rescue him and two others that were in the kidnappers den. The police boss said
the incident happened last Friday, November 24th.
“The man
(pastor) was travelling with his son when the kidnappers stopped them on the
road, they shot the man and took the boy away. Our men engaged the hoodlums in
a shootout but they escaped. We even lost one of our men who went for the
operation. After the incident, our men with the assistance of the local hunters
combed the whole area. We attacked the hoodlums and we were able to rescue the
three victims in their den. The boy whose father was killed and two other
travellers who were going to Lagos from Port Harcourt were rescued
successfully'
The remains
of the deceased pastor and police officer has been deposited at the state
morgue.
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