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Kidnapping: Dismissed policeman,others arrested in Ekiti

A dismissed police officer identified as Ayo Samuel has been arrested in Ekiti State by the state police command. The ex-policeman was arrested in connection with alleged cases of kidnappings and robberies that had been perpetrated in the state and its environs in recent time. Other suspects arrested along with Samuel are a housewife and Sule Nana for allegedly faking her own kidnap with the intent to dupe her husband of the sum of N50,000.

Parading the dismissed cop yesterday among other kidnap suspects in Ado Ekiti, the Police Commissioner, Mr. Tunde Mobayo, said Samuel confessed to be a member of the kidnapping gang that had participated in different kidnappings and robberies in the state. The Commissioner said the woman who faked her own abduction was arrested by the police after intensive investigation.

Mobayo, represented by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Sunday Abutu, said the RRS operatives on November 20, 2021, got a distress call from one Nana that she was kidnapped by unknown gunmen along Ifaki-Oye- Ekiti road alongside other passengers. “She called her husband that the kidnappers were demanding a sum of N50,000 ransom before she could be released.

The RRS operatives in their intensification combed the bush along Ifaki/Oye-Ekiti before it was later discovered that Nana kidnapped herself to get money from her relatives. She has confessed to the commission of the crime.” Mobayo also paraded a fugitive suspect, Dele Jimoh and Ayeni Blessing, who were among the kidnap kingpins that abducted a petrol dealer, Alhaji Suleiman Akinbami, in Ado Ekiti on January 10, 2021. The CP added that the arrest was sequel to the earlier nabbing of one Adebayo Akeem Banji , Ogunremi Bunmi , Ige Adu and Jimoh Fayoke, on the 6th of November, 2021, for alleged conspiracy, armed robbery, burglary, kidnapping, murder and unlawful possession of firearms. Mobayo said Dele and Blessing allegedly fled upon realising that some of the members of their criminal gang had been nabbed by RRS operatives and had made confessional statements. “Police investigation also led to the arrest of one Johnson Apotire, who confessed to be a member of the notorious kidnapping gang and further stated that he usually impersonates Fulani herdsmen due to his physical resemblance to the Fulani.

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