Kidnapping: So-Safe rescue victim in Ogun

Etim Ekpimah

The Ogun State Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps, codenamed So-Safe Corps, has rescued a 17-year-old boy who was allegedly kidnapped by yet-to-be-identified kidnap suspects.

This was contained in a press statement issued from the Office of the State Commander of the Corps, Commander (Dr) Soji Ganzallo through the Office of the Director of Information and Public Relations of the Corps, Assistant Commander, Moruf Yusuf.

According to the statement on Tuesday 30, January 2024 one Sunday Iboin came to Olorunda Post of the Corps to report that his son, Otohu Moses, was kidnapped at the Olorunsogo Community, Olorunda in the Abeokuta North Local Government Area at about 22:15hrs on Monday 29th January, 2024 while he went out to ease himself at the back of the house.

The statement also read that when Sunday could not see his son return on time, he called his phone number many times and a man answered it and told him in Yoruba language that his son had been kidnapped already.

“The father also said that the suspected kidnappers were asking for a ransom of N1,500,000 (One million, five hundred thousand naira).

“The victim’s father told us that he suspected one of his neighbours to have masterminded the kidnapping.

“The operational team of the Corps strategised, swung into action and then took the war to the alleged suspected kidnappers in the forest, some kilometres away from the point of kidnap; the boy was rescued unhurt, though with marks of the cane on his body while the three-armed kidnappers sighted, escaped with a motorbike,” Ganzallo stated.

He added that the rescued victim has been transferred to the Nigeria Police Force, Imala Divisional Police Headquarters for further investigation.