The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 41-year-old man identified as Temidayo Oladimeji, for allegedly abducting a journalist in the state.
According to the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested on March 24 following the “technical and intelligence-based investigation” embarked upon by the SP Taiwo Opadiran-led anti-kidnapping team, which led them to the hideout where the suspect had been hibernating.
It was gathered that Oladimeji, alongside others who are at large, abducted the newsman, Olusegun Oduneye, at Mobalufon area of Ijebu-Ode on March 9, 2023.
Telling journalists the role the arrested suspect played while with the notorious gang, Oyeyemi said Oladimeji was the one detailed to guard the victim in the bush while two others were waiting for ransom from Oduneye’s family and friends.
NIGERIACRIME gathered that the suspect fled the scene, abandoning his gang members, when he discovered that they had been injured during a gun duel with the police.
“Luck, however, ran out on him when he was traced to his hideout in Ijebu-ode where he was apprehended,” Oyeyemi explained, saying a locally-made pistol and a live cartridge were recovered from the suspect.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Frank Mba, had directed the team to intensify efforts towards arresting other members of the gang.
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In another news, anti-Tinubu’s inauguration air passenger aboard an Ibom flight from Abuja to Lagos, Mr Obiajulu Uja, has been Abuja and remanded in prison custody, shortly after his arraignment before the Zuba Magistrates’ Court.
Uja was on Friday evening carried off a Lagos-Abuja flight, after he started a lone protest, demanding that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, must never be sworn in as president on May 29.
Airport security officers evacuated him after disrupting the Ibomair flight for close to an hour.
A copy of the charge sheet showed that Obiajulu Uja was charged with “public nuisance, resistance to a lawful arrest, threatening violence and conduct likely to cause a breach of peace contrary to sections 396, 267,188,172 and 144 of the Penal Code Law.”
His lawyer Ejike Ugwu, told the journalists yesterday that, “He was arraigned at the Zuba Magistrates’ Court after they deceived us because yesterday he was taken to Muhammadu Buhari Police Hospital, Area 11 Abuja.”
He confirmed that Obiajulu was admitted to the Muhammadu Buhari Police Hospital, adding that the hospital did not have a psychiatrist doctor and psychologist that to examine him.
“While we were there, it was around 3 pm they told us that they wanted to arraign him in Zuba Magistrates’ Court.
“We reminded the court that the same police invited the doctor to examine him, and the same police instead of waiting for the doctors to examine him hurriedly charged him to court.
“Even with the test we did, we spent almost N40,000 at the Police clinic, all the tests they conducted we abandoned all of them; they have not prescribed any medicine.
“The way the police are handling it is as if they have an interest in the matter because you took somebody to a police clinic, you are coming to court to tell the court you want the person to be remanded in prison because you want to continue the investigation.
“Until now we do not know the result of the test that was conducted in the hospital because they hurriedly took him away from the hospital,” the lawyer said.