•Ogun vigilance group storms kidnappers’ den, rescues victim, arrests five suspects who demanded N25 million ransom
AN undergraduate of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Adesina Adeyinka and four other suspected kidnappers, were arrested at the weekend by members of the State Vigilance Service.
Adeyinka, a final year student and his accomplices, succeeded in kidnapping their victim, Mr. Aremu Oluwasogo Peters and took him to their den. They then spoke to the family to pay N25 million as ransom otherwise he would be killed.
But acting on a tip-off, men from the Vigilance Service stormed their hideout and rescued Peters.
The other suspects were Bode Kolawole Seun Obakoya (27), Biodun Ajomale and Segun Samuel.
The suspects, according to the State Command’s Vigilance Service Spokesman, Mr. Soji Ganzallo, who spoke to journalists in Abeokuta, had last Thursday trailed Peters from his office located at No. 86, Ibadan Road, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State at about 7.00p.m.
The victim, who also spoke to the journalists, disclosed that he was about parking his car at his Ijebu-Ode home located at Iwesi quarters at about 8.00p.m. when the gang seized him at a gunpoint.
Peters, who is into communications business, said: “Before I knew what was happening, the kidnappers had pointed a gun at me and collected my car key and immediately, put me inside their car booth and drove off.
He added: “During the journey, I knew they branched at a fuel station to fill the car tank, and continued to a destination I didn’t know because they blindfolded me”.
He said on arrival at the den, he was tortured and forced to make a call through to his family to tell them to pay N25 million as ransom.
“The kidnapers”, he said: “Threatened to kill me if my family failed to pay the ransom within the next 24 hours, but after begging, they reduced the ransom to N5million”.
According to him, it was at that stage that he spoke with his family and asked them to sell his house and other valuables to safe his life.
He disclosed that it was after his release that some of the gang members told him that the gang leader, who happened to be one of his customers, initiated his kidnap.
He said, while arrangement by the family to raise the money was going on, luck ran out on them as the vigilance service stormed the hideout and rescued him and arrested the gang members.
All the suspects who spoke to journalists at the Vigilance Service headquarters located along Presidential Boulevard, Abeokuta, confessed to committing the crime.
They also confessed that the victim was kept inside a car booth and they took him to their hideout at Ajobo village, along Abeokuta-Ibadan Road in Odeda Local Council.
He added that their victim, throughout time he was with them, was fed with bread, coca cola and sachet water.
However, the Public Relations Officer of the Vigilance Service, said the command, on receiving the information, acted fast and was able to locate the hideout, where nemesis caught up with the gang, adding that, the victim was successfully rescued.
The spokesman of the Vigilance Service command, Ganzallo told said the suspects would be handed over to the police.
AN undergraduate of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Adesina Adeyinka and four other suspected kidnappers, were arrested at the weekend by members of the State Vigilance Service.
Adeyinka, a final year student and his accomplices, succeeded in kidnapping their victim, Mr. Aremu Oluwasogo Peters and took him to their den. They then spoke to the family to pay N25 million as ransom otherwise he would be killed.
But acting on a tip-off, men from the Vigilance Service stormed their hideout and rescued Peters.
The other suspects were Bode Kolawole Seun Obakoya (27), Biodun Ajomale and Segun Samuel.
The suspects, according to the State Command’s Vigilance Service Spokesman, Mr. Soji Ganzallo, who spoke to journalists in Abeokuta, had last Thursday trailed Peters from his office located at No. 86, Ibadan Road, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State at about 7.00p.m.
The victim, who also spoke to the journalists, disclosed that he was about parking his car at his Ijebu-Ode home located at Iwesi quarters at about 8.00p.m. when the gang seized him at a gunpoint.
Peters, who is into communications business, said: “Before I knew what was happening, the kidnappers had pointed a gun at me and collected my car key and immediately, put me inside their car booth and drove off.
He added: “During the journey, I knew they branched at a fuel station to fill the car tank, and continued to a destination I didn’t know because they blindfolded me”.
He said on arrival at the den, he was tortured and forced to make a call through to his family to tell them to pay N25 million as ransom.
“The kidnapers”, he said: “Threatened to kill me if my family failed to pay the ransom within the next 24 hours, but after begging, they reduced the ransom to N5million”.
According to him, it was at that stage that he spoke with his family and asked them to sell his house and other valuables to safe his life.
He disclosed that it was after his release that some of the gang members told him that the gang leader, who happened to be one of his customers, initiated his kidnap.
He said, while arrangement by the family to raise the money was going on, luck ran out on them as the vigilance service stormed the hideout and rescued him and arrested the gang members.
All the suspects who spoke to journalists at the Vigilance Service headquarters located along Presidential Boulevard, Abeokuta, confessed to committing the crime.
They also confessed that the victim was kept inside a car booth and they took him to their hideout at Ajobo village, along Abeokuta-Ibadan Road in Odeda Local Council.
He added that their victim, throughout time he was with them, was fed with bread, coca cola and sachet water.
However, the Public Relations Officer of the Vigilance Service, said the command, on receiving the information, acted fast and was able to locate the hideout, where nemesis caught up with the gang, adding that, the victim was successfully rescued.
The spokesman of the Vigilance Service command, Ganzallo told said the suspects would be handed over to the police.
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