Four people have been arrested by Ogun State police on suspicion of intimidating Abeokuta and its surroundings.
The accused were identified as Ismaila Ibrahim (age 21), Musa Muhammed (age 26), Irekura Abu (age 43), and Okanlawon Muhammed by Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun State police image maker (26 years).
He claims that a string of kidnapping incidents in the Abeokuta North Local Government neighborhoods of Soyooye and Ibara Orile led to the arrest of the culprits.
In a previous story, Obasanjonews24 described how kidnappers seized control of a number of towns in Abeokuta, forcing the locals to leave.
Oyeemi said that following the complaint, Lanre Bankole, the commissioner of police, ordered the anti-kidnapping unit to enter the area in order to track down the kidnappers.
According to the Police Commissioner’s report, Irukura Abu, who headed the SP Taiwo Opadiran-led squad, was “later determined to be the supplier of weaponry to the hoodlums” after the team’s technological and intelligence-based inquiry, according to Oyeyemi.
Musa Muhammed was also detained “while going out from their hiding to get food for their victims and members of the gang” after Abu was detained.
The two admitted, it was learned, “to be part of a kidnap gang who are responsible for the kidnapping of one Bishop Oladimeji Joshua of prayer city, Keesan Abeokuta, on September 22, 2022,” following a comprehensive investigation.
According to Oyeyemi, the suspects admitted to the police that they were behind the September 27 kidnapping of one Kafayat Jelili from the Ogo Titun neighborhood of Ibara Orile.
The two remaining suspects, Okanlawon Muhammad and Ismaila Ibrahim, were detained as a result of their confession.
According to reports, the suspects turned up three long guns—two with twin barrels and one with a single barrel.
In the meanwhile, CP Lanre Bankole has commanded that the suspects be tried as soon as the inquiry is finished.
He has also led a manhunt for more gang members who have fled.
