The
Oyo State Police Command has paraded a 20-year-old Ibrahim Babatunde for the
abduction of his father.
Babatunde
said he was the architect of the crime and that he did it with three other
accomplices. Other members of the kidnap gang were Babuga Salihu, 20, Aura
Sands, 20 and Amuda Yusufu, 19.
The
state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude, said Aliyu Babatunde was abducted
in Igboora and spent three days in the den of his abductors. He added that he
was released after the family paid N1 m ransom.
The
20-year-old said he was lured into kidnapping after his father turned a blind
eye to the welfare of his children.
“My
father married many wives and he doesn’t care for us. We are left to fend for
ourselves. So, I think the only way to get money out of him is to
organise his abduction and force him to part with the money. We collected N1m
as ransom from our family.”
While
revealing how the crime was planned and executed, Babatunde said he invited his
friends after he was sure that the plan would succeed.
Odude
said, “The victim was eventually taken to an unknown place where he was kept
for some days by his abductors who later demanded ransom as a condition for his
release.
Initial
arrest of one of the suspects by combined efforts of the local vigilante group
, the police and further discreet investigation carried out by operatives of
the Special Squad led to subsequent arrest of the kingpin and other members of
the gang at their various hideouts in the state.”
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