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  • Updated: April 25, 2022

Police In Ogun Nab Suspected Kidnappers

Police In Ogun Nab Suspected Kidnappers

The Ogun State Police Command has revealed that two out of the nine suspected kidnappers arrested were members of the community they have been terrorising.

The command revealed that the suspected kidnappers have been terrorising their neighbourhood, Abeokuta/Ayetoro Road in Ogun State.

The two in police custody, are Hammed Taiwo and Kehinde Jimoh, while other members of the syndicate are Umar Sanda, Sanda Aliu, Ali Morandu, Usman Abubakar, Usman Mohammed, Umaru Ahmadu and Umaru Momodu.

The gang was busted by a combined team of the police, local hunters, So-Safe Corps, OPC, Vigilante and men of Amotekun Corps on Sunday, April 24, 2022, in their hideout in Oba Village (Abule Oba), off Ayetoro Road, Abeokuta.

They were arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command following credible intelligence gathered by policemen at Sabo/Ilupeju Divisional Headquarters.

Hammed Taiwo and Kehinde Jimoh, it was revealed, are errand commercial motorcyclists to the kidnap syndicate and they were sighted at Rounder area of Abeokuta North Local Government".

"Upon the information, the DPO, SP Mustapha Opawoye, quickly moblised his men and moved to the area, where the duo of Hammed Taiwo and Kehinde Jimoh were apprehended.

"On interrogation, they confessed to being part of the syndicate, specifying their roles as merely running errands for the kidnappers, as well as keeping vigil on the environment against security operatives catching them unaware," the statement by the command's Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, reads.

"The confession of the said errand 'machineries' led to the discovery of the kidnappers' hideout, where they always converged after collecting ransom from their victims' relatives.

"Having discovered the hideout, the DPO mobilized his men, So-Safe Corps, OPC men, local hunters and men of the Amotekun Corps and subsequently stormed the hideout, where all the other seven members of the syndicate were arrested."

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