A suspected kidnapper, Usman Aliyu, has been arrested by the police.
The suspected kidnapper was arrested following the recent arrest of two members of a deadly kidnap gang at Onigbedu forest in the Ewekoro local government area of the state.
According to Within Nigeria, the suspect was seen taking a commercial motorcycle at Onigbedu area and moving towards Papalanto.
The statement reads in part, “After the information, the DPO Ewekoro division quickly mobilizes his men on stop and search along that road and the suspect was subsequently identified and promptly arrested.”
He confessed to being a member of the kidnap gang, which had two members arrested and a victim rescued.
He decided to take a commercial motorcycle out of the bush since the police were not relenting in their search for them.
He confessed that the gang was responsible for the kidnapping of Owolabi Abiodun and Fakorede Kazeem in October of 2022, but Fakorede was killed by the gang.
The duo of Adekunle Esther 10-year-old and Adekunle Adebayo 15 years old were kidnapped in Abeokuta.
He confessed that, on the 19th of October 2022, the gang kidnapped one Mrs Famurewa at Abule Ijaye Soyooye Abeokuta at the entrance of their house after killing her 65 year old husband, one Festus Famurewa and later released the wife after collecting
On the 16th of November 2022, the duo of Osoba Moroof and Olatunji Azeez were kidnapped by the same gang at Olujobi town Itori but were later set free.
The suspects in the abduction of the two kids have been identified by all the victims.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Lanre Bankole, has assured members of the public that other members of the gang will be fished out wherever they are, as the Command will make the state unconsolidated.
