The police in Ogun State have arrested a 32 years old man, Tunde Bello, for allegedly kidnapping and raping a 29 years old lady (name withheld).
The arrest was effected on January 16, 2021.
According to a statement issued on Friday by the spokesman of the Ogun State Police Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the victim had on September 17, 2020 reported at Mowe police station that while she was going to her office on that day, she boarded a Hyundai car at about 5:00 a.m. from Ogunrun Road, Mowe, to Lagos.
However, on getting to Mowe Junction, the driver of the car made a detour to Ibadan road and drove her to a bush along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway where he beat her mercilessly before forcefully having carnal knowledge of her.
She said after raping her, he held her hostage and asked her to call her relations to send the sum of N140,000 to him as ransom before he would let her go.
The victim also stated that she had to call her brother who transferred N140,000 to her account which she transferred to an account given to her by her abductor before she was released.
Upon her report, the DPO Mowe division, Marvis Jayeola, detailed his detectives to go after the suspect with the view to arresting him.
The intelligence and technical based investigation embarked upon by the detectives yielded positive results when the suspect who had been under surveillance was apprehended on the January 16, 2021.
On interrogation, he confessed to the commission of the crime.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Edward A. Ajogun, was said to have ordered the transfer of the suspect to the anti-kidnapping unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.
