As part of ongoing efforts by the security apparatus in Ondo State to normalize the increasing crime rate in the state, particularly the kidnap cases which have for some months been giving residents and travellers huge concern, men of the state police command have apprehended two suspected leaders of the kidnapping ring in the state.
According to the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Femi Joseph, the suspects who have been identified as Jahae Mohammed and Jimoh Ahmed, were arrested when the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mudashiru Abudulahai led 87 other policemen from the command into the forest.According to the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Femi Joseph, the suspects who have been identified as Jahae Mohammed and Jimoh Ahmed, were arrested when the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mudashiru Abudulahai led 87 other policemen from the command into the forest.
“The combined team of police formation was led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Mudashiru Abudulahai, Area Commander, Iwaro-Akoko, ACP Musiliu O. Aliu, Police Public Relation Officer, myself (PPRO) and the DPO Oba-Akoko, with nothing less than eighty-seven men and officers drawn from Anti-kidnapping squad, Anti-cultist squad, Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) and men and officers of the Area command, comb the forest reserve at Oba-Akoko for almost five (5) hours plus before the arrest were made.
“At the two kidnappers locations in the thick forest, objects such as clothes suspected to be from their victims, shoes and cudgels were seen, as the DCP Abudulahai ordered for the destruction of the den immediately.”
The PPRO also emphasized that surveillance would be intensified in the area with the aim of tracking the fleeing kidnappers terrorising residents and travellers and people of the state, adding that such exercise combing all suspected forest and areas across the state will be continued to rid-off the state from criminals.