CRIME NEWS
Gunmen kidnap three persons
in Ondo
Three persons, who
were on transit on Auga-Ise Akoko road in Akoko North-East Local Government
Area of Ondo State, were over the weekend kidnapped.
It was gathered
that two vehicles, a Toyota Corolla car and a Mitsubushi pick-up whose
occupants were going for a ceremony at Ikare-Akoko, were waylaid by gunmen who
abducted three of the passengers.
According to some
of the residents of Auga-Akoko where the incident happened, they said
kidnappings along Auga-Ise road of Akoko North-East Local Government Area,
which had been a thing of past, had suddenly resurfaced with the latest
abduction.
Narrating the
incident, a source stated that the three victims, who are males were abducted
on the same spot where the wife of the Alauga of Auga, Olori Agunloye and her
driver, were kidnapped last year.
He added that among
those kidnapped was the head of the family traveling in the Corolla car.
According to him,
the hoodlums released the wife and his two children to inform their people of
the kidnap in order to look for ransom.
In his reaction,
the Alauga of Auga, Oba Samuel Agunloye, advised that in order to stop the
scourge, there must be an Army formation, as well as constant police patrol in
the area.
The monarch
disclosed that Ipele-Isua Auga-Akunu-Kabba federal highway needed to be
rehabilitated for free flow of vehicles.
The state Police
Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Femi Joseph, said investigation had begun to
arrest the hoodlums and secure the release of the captives.
Meanwhile, the
kidnappers are yet to establish contact with the families of the victims.
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