By Oludamisi Ojo, Akure.
Men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency (Amotekun Corps) have arrested two suspected kidnappers and rescued six victims from the kidnappers’ den in Kogi State.
Sources said six persons who were traveling from Ondo town to Kaduna State for Youth Service Corps, were abducted by unknown gunmen on their way.
The victims were said to be three males, three females, while one of them was a 23-year-old female Corps member identified as Blessing Sunday from Ondo town.
Blessing was said to have contacted men of the Amotekun Corps in Ondo and notified them of their kidnap on their way to Kaduna.
Men of the Corps in Ondo town were said to have organized a rescue team in search of the kidnapped victims and discovered that they were in a town in Kogi State.
Consequently, they aligned with security men in Kogi State to ensure the victims were rescued while the perpetrators were apprehended
The Corps Commander in Ondo State, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye, who confirmed the report said; “We got a call from a family member of a passenger who is an indigene of Ondo State, from Ondo town that one of their family members, who was on her way to orientation camp in Kaduna State had been kidnapped.
”As at that time, it was late in the night. Hours after the incident, we succeeded in getting the number with which the kidnappers used in contacting the family of the victim, demanding 10 million ransom and we did the tracking immediately.
“We got their location which showed that they were somewhere around Ijara in Kogi State, not too far from Kabba.
“We deployed our men from Ondo to the nearest local government to the location in Kogi State, who worked alongside the security agency over there for a successful operation.
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“We were there for almost two days, mounting pressure on them. We did lots of tracking to get to their location.
“They wanted N10 million, but we were able to reduce it to N2m. We stylishly agreed and asked them to send an account number to where the money would be sent to. We sent One million naira into the account and tracked the owner of the account. We realized it was a First Bank account in Kogi State.
“We went after the Kidnappers and with the support of the DPO of the affected area, we succeeded”.
The Amotekun Chief said eventually, two suspects were arrested, including the one who owns the account in which the money was paid in Kogi State.
The two suspects, he said have been handed over to the Kogi State Police Command, while six victims were safely rescued.
Adeleye, who is also the Special Adviser to the Ondo State Governor on Security Matters, hinted that “We were able to discover three locations and we realized that the victims are right in the middle of the kidnappers and we ensured that they were rescued unhurt.
