Ogun Police Arrests Two Notorious Kidnap Syndicate In Their Hideout

Two suspected members of a notorious kidnap syndicate have been reportedly arrested at their hideout in Ogun State.

The Suspects, identified as Jato Abu Bello and Muhammad Suleiman, the suspects, police said, were responsible for series of kidnapping incidents in the state, one of which was that of one Ajibola Salimot Adejoke, who was traced and abducted in her house at Oke-Ode area, off Ayetoro Road, Abeokuta on February 17, 2022.

Another was the February 26 kidnap of one Victoria Oladoyin at Aboba area of Sodeke- Titun, also in Abeokuta and that of two siblings, Esther Kehinde and David Kehinde, whose incident took place at Ayetoro on March 8.

According to the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, their arrest in the early hours of Saturday, March 12, 2022, was based on a painstaking technical and intelligence investigation.

He said the SP Taiwo Opadiran-led Anti- kidnapping Unit of the command located the suspects’ hideout at the ‘Rounder’ axis of Abeokuta, the state capital and, thereafter, stormed the said hideout with a reinforcement of operatives from Ilupeju and Lafenwa divisions.

Meanwhile, according to the police spokesman, “some of the victims have identified the suspects as their abductors”.

The state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, in his reaction, commended his men for their doggedness, resilience and determination in fishing out the suspects, and has further directed that other members of the syndicate must be hunted for and brought to book.