Officers of Ogun State Police have arrested a suspected kidnapper after a gun duel, rescue a kidnap victim around Kara Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Saturday.
The state’s Police PRO, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect, Ibraheem Abubakar, was arrested after police officers invaded the kidnappers’ hideout.
Oyeyemi said, “Men of the command took the battle to the doorstep of the hoodlums following a report lodged at the Warewa divisional headquarters by a commercial driver.
“The driver reported that he was coming from Ilorin in his Ford commercial car loaded with seven passengers; on getting to the Longbridge, there was traffic jam, consequence upon which he drove through the untarred access road beside the bridge.
“While driving through the said access road, they were attacked by some unknown gunmen, which made all the passengers to run in different directions into the nearby bush.
“But when they all regrouped to continue their journey, it was discovered that one of the passengers, Alhaji Sheu Anafi, from the Okeleele area of Ilorin, has been abducted by the hoodlums.
“Upon the report, the DPO, Warewa, CSP Abdul-Fatai Ogunsanya, led a joint operation consisting men of the command’s tactical teams, local vigilantes, So-Safe Corps and OPC men, for bush combing in search of the abducted man.
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“Their efforts yielded positive result when the hideout of the kidnappers was located and the security operatives engaged them in a gun battle.
“At the end of the encounter, one of the kidnappers, Ibraheem Abubakar, who claimed to have come from Sabonganmu-Bompai Road, Kano State, was arrested, while others escaped with varying degrees of gunshot injuries, and the victim, 62-year-old Sheu Anafi, was rescued unhurt.
“The suspect has confessed to being a member of a seven-man gang terrorising the stretch of the Longbridge in recent time.”
