The Rapid Response Squad of the Ekiti State Police Command has arrested a fourteen-man syndicate in connection with the abduction of one Akiode Akinyemi ‘m’, a student of a private Polytechnic in the state on nineteenth of this month.
It was reported that a gang of suspected kidnappers sneaked into the hostel apartment of the victim, blindfolded him and whisked him away to an unknown destination.
After a while, the suspects, through phone calls, started demanding for ransom to be paid as the only condition for the release of Akiode Akinyemi. Consequently, two million two hundred thousand naira(#2,200,000:00) was paid as ransom by the victim’s family members into eight different Bank Accounts as provided by the suspects.
Parading the suspects in Ado Ekiti, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Tunde Mobayo said upon the receipt of the information of the kidnap, the Rapid Respond Squad operatives swung into action and on Wednesday this week at about four o clock in the morning, arrested a total of fourteen suspects in connection with the abduction among whom are ten students of the private Institution and four others.
According to him, the arrested suspects are: Afolabi Olamide Lekan ‘m’, Peter Adeyemi ‘m’, Abiodun Oluwaseun ‘m’, Bamidele Emmanuel ‘m’, Adewumi Sola ‘m’, Adesuyi Adeyeye Olarewaju ‘m’, David Daniel ‘m’, Damilare Yusuf ‘m’, Olasile Hassan ‘m’, Jesse Obinna ‘m’, Mohanye Samuel ‘m’, Olugbade Timileyin ‘m’, Olamide Temilade ‘m’ and Blessing Omotuyi ‘m’.
He explained that all the suspects arrested have confessed to the commission of the crime and stated that the two million two hundred thousand naira(#2,200,000:00) collected as ransom before releasing the victim was shared among them.
Mr Mobayo, while frowning at the act, appealed to members of the public to always partner and support the Police and other Security agencies especially in intelligence gathering that would assist in getting the Society rid of criminal elements.
