By Ola Fadoju
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command on Saturday 24th of September 2022, stormed the hideout of kidnappers who had been terrorising the Kara Bridge end of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
In operation, the police arrested one member of the kidnapping gang, while a kidnap victim, Sheu Anafi was rescued unhurt.
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, stated that men of the Command took the battle to the doorstep of the hoodlums following a report lodged at Warewa Divisional Headquarters by a commercial driver.
He had reported that while he was coming from Ilorin in his Ford commercial car with registration number LRN 596 ZY, loaded with seven passengers, on getting to the long bridge, there was a traffic jam, consequence upon which he drove through the untarred access road beside the bridge.
While driving through the said access road, some gunmen attacked them, which made all passengers run in different directions in the nearby bush.
But when they all regrouped to continue their journey, it was discovered that one of the passengers by the name Alhaji Sheu Anafi from Okeleele area of Ilorin has been abducted by the hoodlums.
Upon the report, the DPO, Warewa Division, CSP Abdul Fatai Ogunsanya, led a joint operation consisting of men of the Command’s tactical teams, local vigilantes, So-Safe Corps and OPC men to comb the bush, searching for the abducted man.
Oyeyemi said: “Their efforts yielded positive results when the hideout of the kidnappers was located and the security operatives engaged them in a gun battle. At the end of the encounter, one of the kidnappers, Ibrahim Abubakar who claimed to have come from Sabonganmu-Bompai Road, Kano State, was arrested while others escaped with varying degrees of gunshots injuries, and the victim, 62 years old, Sheu Anafi was rescued unhurt.”
The Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation Departments (SCID) for discreet investigation.
The CP also appealed to public members, especially hospitals to inform the police if anybody with gunshot injury is seen in their area.
