The police in Ogun State on Friday said it rescued an eight-year-old victim from kidnappers.

Abimbola Oyeyemi, the police spokesperson, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

The victim, Sadiq Abass, was
abducted by five kidnappers who
demanded N3.5 million ransom
from his father.

According to the police, Riliwan
Mohammed, the father of the
victim, reported that he left his
wife and three children at home at
about 12 noon on Friday, only to
receive a phone call from a
strange number that his son has
been abducted.

“He reported further that the
caller demanded for the sum of
₦3.5 million as ransom if he wants
to see the boy alive,” the
statement read.

Mr Oyeyemi said upon the report,
the Divisional Police Officer, Ogere
division, Abiodun Ayinde,
mobilised detectives to go after the
suspects.

“The detectives there and then
embarked on technical and
intelligence based investigation
which led them to the hideout of
the suspects where they were
arrested and the victim rescued
unhurt,” he said in the statement.

Mr Oyeyemi, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police, added
that the five suspects who
connived together to abduct the
boy are in police custody.

The suspects are Abdul Raman
Umar, Falalu Abubakar, Danjuma
Bako, Idris Lawal, and Fauziya
Falalu.

The statement said the
commissioner of police in the
state, Edward Awolowo, has
ordered the immediate transfer of
the suspects to anti kidnapping
unit of the state criminal
investigation and intelligence
department for further
investigation.

The police chief also directed an
investigation into the past
activities of the suspects in order
to know how long they have been
into kidnapping.

PREMIUM TIMES also reported
how Ogun state police rescued a
13-year-old victim from a kidnap
syndicate at Ado-Ota area of the
state.

The kidnappers demanded a
N500,000 ransom from the father
of the teenager.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/472890-police-rescue-eight-year-old-from-kidnappers.html

Thank God his head is still intact without being mined

Thank God she was rescued