The Oyo State Police Command says it arrested 10 suspected kidnappers who abducted former Deputy Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan (UI), Adigun Agbaje, alongside other travellers, including two female students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The suspects were also paraded by the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams, at the Command Headquarters, Eleiyele, Ibadan, Oyo State.
The suspects are Mohammed Salfa (20), Usman Hassan (22), Mohammed Bello (28), Babangida Buhari Awalu (34), Kabiru Aliya (25), Mikailu Yahaya (25), Muhammadu Umoru (30), Ayanwola Samson Gbenga (22), Adewuyin Adewumi Sunday (34) and Rafiu Abdulmajeed (40).
Williams said that technological intelligence aided the operation with support from Amotekun (the Oyo State Security Network) and other communal partners, arrested Babangida Buhari Awalu, a commercial motorcyclist and Kabiru Aliyu, a courier for the kidnappers, while retrieving “exchanged money” for other members of the suspects around Ojoo in Ibadan.
He said the kidnappers attacked a team of policemen in a bid to rescue trapped victims on the highway, which led to the death of a police inspector during a fierce gun-duel.
The Oyo CP added that N7 million, four AK-47 rifles, 75 AK-47 live ammunition, two pairs of military camouflage, one mobile police beret and a victim’s bag were recovered from the abductors.
