The victims were a girl,
Tobiloba Aleshiloye, 12, and an eight-year-old boy, Yussuf Kudus.
The Ogun State Police
Command has arrested a 28-year-old man, Abiodun Joseph, in Ibadan, Oyo State,
for allegedly kidnapping two children.
The suspect, who was said
to be a resident of Cananland, Sango Ota, in the Ado Odo/Ota Local Government
Area of the state, allegedly abducted the two children on September 15, 2017.
He was said to have taken
them to an unknown place, from where he started demanding a ransom of N150,000
per child from their parents.
The state Police Public
Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the parents of the abducted children
reported the case to the police at the Agbara division and detectives were
detailed to be on the trail of the kidnapper.
He said “Technical
investigation” was conducted on the suspect’s whereabouts and the hideout was
located in a hotel in the Ojo area of Ibadan.
He said the detectives
stormed the location, arrested the suspect and rescued the victims unhurt.
“The two children have been
reunited with their parents,” Oyeyemi added.
Meanwhile the state
Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of
the case to the Anti-kidnapping/Cultism unit of the Criminal Investigation and
Intelligence Department, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
Iliyasu appealed to members
of the public to take the security of their children seriously in order not to
make them victims of kidnappers. (Punch)
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