Police arrest kidnapper, free victim
The police in Ogun state have announced the arrest of a suspected kidnapper, Ibraheem Abubakar. Abimbola Oyeyemi, the spokesperson for the Ogun police command, said operatives stormed the kidnappers den, located at Kara Bridge end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
They also claimed to have freed a victim, identified as Sheu Anafi, during the operation. Oyeyemi said kidnappers had been terrorising travellers and other people passing through the area in recent times.
“Men of the command took the battle to the doorstep of the hoodlums following a report lodged at Warewa divisional headquarters by a commercial driver.
He said, “The driver reported that while he was coming from Ilorin in his Ford commercial car with registration number LRN 596 ZY, loaded with seven passengers, on getting to the long bridge, there was traffic jam consequence upon which he drove through the untared access road beside the bridge.
“While driving through the said access road, they were attacked by some unknown gunmen which made all the passengers run into different directions in the nearby bush.
“But when they all regrouped to continue their journey, it was discovered that one of the passengers by name Alhaji Sheu Anafi from Okeleele area of Ilorin has been abducted by the hoodlums.
“Upon the report, the DPO Warewa division, CSP Abdul Fatai Ogunsanya led a joint operation consisting men of the command’s tactical teams, local Vigilantes, so safe corps and OPC men for bush combing in search of the abducted man.
“Their efforts yielded positive result when the hideout of the kidnappers was located and the security operatives engaged them in a gun battle.
“At the end of the encounter, one of the kidnappers, Ibraheem Abubakar, who claimed to have come from Sabonganmu-Bompai road, Kano State, was arrested while others escaped with varying degrees of gunshot injuries, and the victim, 62 years old Sheu Anafi was rescued unhurt.
“The suspect has confessed to being a member of a seven-man gang terrorising the stretch of the long bridge in recent time.”
