The Ogun State Vigilance
Service, Sunday, said it had arrested six suspected kidnappers including
a final year student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU,
Ago-Iwoye, (name withheld) who demanded a sum of N25million
ransom from their victim’s family.
The Public Relations Officer of the Service, Soji Ganzallo told
newsmen in Abeokuta, that the suspects had on Thursday trailed one Aremu Peters
from his office located at number 86 Ibadan road,Ijebu-Ode, at about 7.00p.m.
and subsequently kidnapped him.
According to Ganzallo, the command on receiving the information
moved in swiftly and was able to locate their hideout, rescued the victim and
arrested the suspects.
Narrating his ordeals in the hands of the kidnappers, Peters said
he got his freedom 48 hours after he was abducted, saying the kidnappers
pointed a gun at him, collected his car key and immediately put him inside the
car booth.
They later abandoned the car at Iwesi quarters, Ijebu-Ode, at
around 8.00pm.
According to him, “I was blindfolded and on arrival at their
hide-out, I was tortured and asked to put a call through to my family. The gang
leader demanded for N25million ransom.
They called my family on my phone and ordered them to pay
N25million ransom.
They tied my hands. But after much pleas, they reduced the ransom
to N5million. At that stage, I asked my family to sell my house and other
valuables to save my life before luck ran against them when the vigilance
service burst the hideout and rescued me.”
Confessing to their crime, the gang leader said they kept their
victim in the car booth before they took him to the hideout located
at Ajobo village, in Odeda Local Government Area, along Abeokuta-Ibadan road.
He added that they fed their victim with bread, soft drink and
sachet water within 48 hours of the victim’s captivity.
However, Ganzallo told newsmen that findings revealed that the
victim’s car was abandoned by the gang in Ibadan. He said the suspects would be
handed over to the police.
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