Two kidnappers were arrested on Sunday by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command while trying to pick ransom.
The suspects, 42 years old Muhammed Abubakar, and 18 years old Clinton Niche, were apprehended following a report lodged at Agbara area command by one Stephen Ajibili.
According to the spokesman of the Ogun State Police Command spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyeymi, Ajibili said his seven years old son, Daniel, was abducted by unknown persons while he was sent on an errand by his mother at about 11:20 am.
He stated further that the abductors had called him and demanded for the sum of N1 million if he wanted his son released.
Consequent upon the report, the Acting Area Commander, Agbara, CSP Kayode Shedrack, quickly mobilised his detectives to embarked on technical and intelligence based investigation to unravel those behind the dastardly act.
The efforts of the detectives paid off when the suspects who had directed the victim’s parents to drop the ransom money somewhere were ambushed and apprehended by the police detectives.
The suspects subsequently led the policemen to a bush where the innocent young boy was tied to a tree by his abductors.
On interrogation, the suspects informed the police that they were three in number, but the remaining member of their gang was the person watching over their victim while they came out to collect the ransom.
Having discovered that his two accomplices had been arrested, he fled immediately.
Meanwhile, the Acting Commissioner of Police, DCP Abiodun Alamutu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to anti-kidnapping section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation.
He also directed that the fleeing member of the gang be hunted for and brought to justice within the shortest possible period.
