The two suspects, Ibikunle Opeyemi and Kadiri Jamiu
A young woman, Ibikunle Opeyemi who led a gang of kidnappers to forcefully abduct one Pastor Mapai Samuel of ZOE Family International Church at Odo Eran area of Abeokuta has been arrested by the police.
The young woman and a man, Kadiri Jamiu were arrested following a distress call received by policemen at Aregbe Divisional Headquarters that two men dressed in military camouflage and accompanied by a woman invaded the church while the pastor was preaching at about 8 pm and forcefully dragged the pastor out of the Church and took him away to an unknown destination.
Not quite long after taking the pastor away, the invaders called to demand for certain amount of money as ransom.
According to DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Public Relations Officer of Ogun State Police Command, police quickly acted on the distress call as the DPO Aregbe division, CSP Ikechukwu Gabriel and his detectives quickly embarked on technical and intelligence based investigation which revealed that the suspects were hiding somewhere around Adigbe area of Abeokuta.
The DPO and his men in conjunction with men of Adigbe division stormed the hideout where the Pastor was rescued and two of the suspects were arrested, while
the two men in military camouflage escaped .
On interrogation, the woman amongst them claimed to have been in business relationship with the pastor, and that the Pastor cheated her in the course of the business which made her to contact the three men to kidnap the Pastor in order to teach him lesson.
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, who praised his men for their quick response to the distress call, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation.
He also directed that other members of the gang must be hunted down and brought to book.
