A female victim of suspected kidnappers has been rescued in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, by operatives of the So-Safe Corps.
The Corps put up a big fight in an exchange of gunfire with the hoodlums to successfully secure the victim’s freedom, and also arrested a 32-year-old member of the syndicate, Tunde Salami, from Ibadan in Oyo State
The victim was said to ran into her abductors on July 13, at about 8:00pm, while returning home from the market.
They reportedly seized her phone, gold jewelry, N100,000 in her possession and an Automated Teller Machine (ATM card and thereafte drove her away in her car.
On receipt of a distress call on the incident at the headquarters of the So-Safe Corps, the State Commader, Dr. Soji Ganzallo, charged the jebu Zonal Commander, superintended by ACC Marcus Ayankoya, to embark on the victim’s rescue, and do everything within the team’s capability to arrest the kidnappers.
Gonzallo disclosed in a press release issued by the Corps’ Director of Information and Public Relations, AC Moruf Yusuf, that the team could not easily catch up with the kidnapper because of logistics challenges, but was unrelenting in the onerous task.
In the process, the team was informed of strange footprints on a farmland at Oke-Ako Community in Ijebu- Ode Local Government Area, following which Ganzallo instructed the Isiwo/Itamapako Divisional Officer of the Corps, SC Aderibigbe M.O, to mobilize and lead his special squad to deal with the suspected kidnappers decisively.
“The kidnappers were tracked down after rigorous and intensive search, even as they were on the verge relocating the victim”, the Commander stated, adding that, the operatives consequently confronted them in a shoot-out and were successfully repelled, a development that led to the arrest of Salami, from whom a locally- made pistol was recovered.
The victim, according to the statement, was traumatized but not harmed.
The statement further disclosed that both the suspect and the victim have been transferred to the Obalende Divisional Police Headquarters in Ijebu-Ode for further
investigation.
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