Following an earlier report of the daring feat by the police in rescuing two kidnap victims, Oke Olatunji and Femi Ajayi, abducted in Isin Local Government of Kwara state on Thursday, the command has announced that the remaining three kidnapped victims have been released as a result of the pressure asserted by the command tactical teams and the vigilante led by CP Ebunoluwarotimi Adelesi late Saturday night.
Earlier on Saturday, Rextun City Updates reported that two of the victims were rescued by a combined team of policemen, hunters and vigilantes on the directive of the state Police Commissioner.
Recall that four victims, Dipe Ajayi, Kunle Abolarin, Femi Abolarin and Femi Ajayi, all of Oke-Arin, Isanlu-Isin were abducted at about 1700hours on Thursday, 13th July in Isanlu-Isin.
In a swift reaction to reports of their abduction, the state police commissioner, who had earlier expressed her intolerance for criminalities, dispatched the command’s anti-kidnapping unit stationed within the Isanlu-Isin axis, assisted by hunters and vigilantes, with directives to give the abductors a hot chase and rescue the Victims alive.
In the process, the kidnappers abandoned the Sienna bus conveying the victims at the time of the incident and one of them, Oke Olatunji was rescued by the team.
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According to the spokesman of the state police command, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, in Ilorin on Saturday, “the CP personally led another special tactical team on search and rescue operation into the forest within Isin town and in the process, another victim identified as Femi Ajayi, with bullet injury was rescued.
He was taken to the health center in Isanlu-Isin where he is currently receiving medical attention, the spokesman disclosed.
Further efforts and doubled pressure on the fleeing abductors led to the release of the remaining three victims in captivity, Okasanmi stated in an early Sunday morning statement.
“The remaining three kidnapped victims in Isanlu-Isin have been released as a result of the pressure asserted by the command tactical teams and the vigilante led by CP Ebunoluwarotimi Adelesi late yesterday night.”
Meanwhile, the command’s spokesman also debunked claims that a thunder strike allegedly killed two suspected kidnappers at Oro-Ago of Kwara South Senatorial District of the state.
“The command wishes to confirm that lightning killed two young people, but they were not kidnappers as was erroneously amplified in the viral video.
“To this end, the command wishes to advise the good people of Kwara state to discountenance the story as no such thing happened,” he said.
