The Ogun State Police Command has arrested Ibikunle Opeyemi and Kadiri Jamiu in connection with the forceful abduction of Pastor Mapai Samuel of Zoe Family International Church, Odo Eran, Abeokuta.
The spokesperson of the Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi revealed that the duo were arrested in the early hours of Thursday, July 14, 2022, following a distress call received by personnel at Aregbe Divisional Headquarters.
Oyeyemi also disclosed that they received information that two men dressed in military camouflage accompanied by a woman had invaded the church while the pastor was preaching at about 8 pm and forcefully dragged the pastor out of the church and took him away to an unknown destination.
"Not quite long after taking the pastor away, the invaders called to demand for a certain amount of money as ransom.
"Upon the distress call, the DPO Aregbe division, CSP Ikechukwu Gabriel and his detectives quickly embarked on technical and intelligence-based investigation and discovered that the suspects were hiding somewhere around Adigbe area of Abeokuta.
"The DPO and his men in conjunction with men of Adigbe division stormed the hideout where the Pastor was rescued and two of the suspects were arrested, while the two men in military camouflage escaped."
Oyeyemi stated that the woman upon interrogation claimed to have been in business relationship with the pastor, and that he cheated her in the course of the business which made her to contact the three men to kidnap him in order to teach him a lesson.
The spokesperson stated that the Ogun Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the anti-kidnapping unit of the state criminal investigation department for discreet investigation.
Bankole also directed that other members of the gang must be hunted and brought to book.
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