Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two suspected kidnappers, who engaged security operatives in a gun duel after abducting a couple from Bisodun village in the Obafemi-Owode local government area of Ogun State.
The police revealed that the suspects; Mohammed Bello and Mohammed Bashiru were arrested by the combined team of the police and hunters who launched a search party into a forest very close to the village in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
LEADERSHIP gathered that the suspected kidnappers had on Tuesday evening, around 8p.m, invaded Bisodun village from where they wished away the couple identified as Mr. and Mrs. Ojo into a nearby forest.
Following the abduction of the couple, the villagers allegedly sent a distress call to the police at the Owode Egba Divisional Headquarters, who later mobilized a police search team almond with the local hunters in their large number to confront the kidnappers in the forest.
While combing the nearby forest however, the kidnappers suddenly opened fire on the rescue team which the security men and the hunters adequately responded to.
The command’s public relations officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident, stated that one of the local hunters was later hit by the bullet fired by the kidnappers.
Oyeyemi further disclosed that the kidnappers later abandoned their victims and ran for cover after they were overwhelmed by the superior gun firing from the police and the hunters.
“The abducted victims and the injured hunter were quickly rushed to the hospital but the hunter, Adebare Ramoni later died while receiving treatment at the hospital where he was rescued for treatment”.
