Police arrest 41 over kidnapping, murder, robbery

The Oyo State Police Command has paraded 26 suspected kidnappers who have been terrorising Ibadan and Ibarapa areas of the state.

Some of those paraded are alleged to have murdered their victims after collecting ransom from their families.

Also paraded were 13 suspected armed robbers; a 72-year-old pastor of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Jimoh Odunayo, who allegedly defiled a 13-year-old girl; and a 56-year-old lawyer, Remi-Oladiti, who also defiled a 14-year-old girl.

The state’s Commissioner of Police (CP), Ngozi Onadeko, who paraded the suspects on Wednesday, said some of them participated in the kidnapping and murders of Oluwole Agboola in Akinyele Local Government Area; and a local government Chairman, Hon Adeleke Jacob Olayiwola.

Others arrested are two security officers who were absent from work on the day their employer, Alhaja Sherifat Adisa, a member of the Independent Petroleum Marketers (IPMAN) in Ibarapa area, was killed.

Speaking with Daily Trust, the two aged security men, Tiamiyu Isah and Rasak Ramon, said it was coincidence that they were absent from work on the same day, adding that they did not know anything about the kidnapping and murder of their boss.

Speaking on the murder of the business woman, the CP said, “The prime suspect, Jare Mohammed, inserted his SIM card in the Nokia phone of the deceased, Alhaja Adisa Sherifat, which was taken from her during the armed robbery operation that claimed her life.”