:Ogun State Police Command on Friday confirmed the abduction of
Two worshippers at a Celestial Church, in Mowe, Obafemi/Owode local government area of the state have been abducted by gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers.
Nigeriacrime.com learned that the incident occurred on Thursday, at the church located near Oriyarin village, Mowe.
The command spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, who confirmed this identified the victims as Oladapo Seyifunmi and Oluboboye Abiola.
Odutola added that the hoodlums escaped through a thick forest behind the church.
According to her, “report at my disposal reveals that on 28/3/2024, unidentified gunmen invaded a Celestial Church around Oriyarin village Mowe and abducted one Oladapo Seyifunmi andu Oluboboye Abiola and escaped through the thick forest behind the church.
“The Commissioner of Police, Alamutu Abiodun, has been briefed, and he has ordered immediate mobilisation of security personnel to go after the hoodlums.”
In a related development, operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested Aliu Oyetola and Seyi Afolabi, said to be members of a four-man gang of ‘one chance’ robbers terrorising residents of Sango Ota and its environs.
Oyetola and Afolabi were arrested by the police operatives attached to Sango Ota while on a routine patrol around Itori, the headquarters of Ewekoro Local Government area of the State on Thursday.
It was gathered that the policemen had been on the trail after a victim reported how he was robbed on March 23, 2024, losing over N320,000 to the robbers.
SP Omolola Odutola, said, “The victim boarded a Toyota Corolla taxi at Ijako market, going to Itori, with four men who surreptitiously posed as a fellow passenger in the said taxi.
“While on the way, the said men robbed the victim of her valuables, by forcefully dispossessing her of her smartphone valued at N85,000, the money realised from POS machine sale worth N123,000, and a separate cash N105,000 and subsequently pushed her out of the car and fled”.
“Acting on the report, the DPO Sango Ota Division gave his surveillance team an order to be on the lookout for the perpetrators of the crime.”
She explained further that on March 28, 2024, while the policemen were on surveillance on Itori road, a Toyota Corolla car which the gang usually used to operate was approaching the police, but it suddenly stopped and the occupants fled in different directions.
The police operatives immediately gave them “a hot chase and succeeded in arresting the duo.”
A Toyota Corolla vehicle with number plate GGE 659 FR was recovered.
The two suspects arrested were said to have made confessional statements and cooperated with the police by giving useful information that would lead to the arrest of other fleeing members of the gang.
The State Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alamutu, has ordered that the suspects be transferred to the Anti-robbery Department of the State Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation and diligent prosecution.