Police arrest couple over abduction of reverend sisters in Ondo

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a couple, Ayodeji and Adebimpe Muyijimi, for orchestrating the abduction of two reverend sisters, Perpetual Apo and Bukola Funmilade, and their driver, Mr. Zwugwa Zibai, on the Benin-Sagamu Expressway at Kajola in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state in May.

The police specifically said the couple were members of a gang responsible for a series of kidnappings in the state in recent times.

Speaking with journalists, the state police commissioner, Mrs. Hilda Harrison, said the couple who had since confessed to the crime, were arrested in Okitipupa.

But Ayodeji, who is physically-challenged said he did not actively participate in the kidnappings due to his condition.

According to the police, his role was to give information about their victims to the other members of the gang while his wife, Adebimpe allegedly kept the arms and ammunition used in operations.

The gang was allegedly led by one Godwin Ufoma, who had also been arrested by the police but currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital.

The commissioner said, “The couple have confessed to being members of the gang that kidnapped the reverend sisters.

“The same gang also kidnapped one Oluwatimilehin Olatunji in Okitipupa but the victim later escaped.”

The commissioner appealed to the people of the state to support the command by giving information on the activities of criminals in the state.

The police have said the suspects would be arraigned soon.

Fashola forced me into crime- kidnapper

In January 2013, a four-year-old boy, Alonge Oluwa Tumishe, was abducted on his way to school at Ishaga area of Lagos State, by a five-man kidnap gang, who took him to Abeokuta, Ogun State and received a ransom of N5 million before he was released. Relatives of the victim, who were said to be owners of a popular school within Ishaga, were thrown into confusion following the incident and have been forced into reclusive lifestyle to prevent a repeat of the incident.

Meanwhile,  police authorities, yesterday, disclosed that its operatives at the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, SIRT, trailed the suspects to their hideouts in Ishaga, Agege and Egbeda areas of Lagos State, and arrested three of them.They also recovered also recovered a locally made gun, while two other members of the gang are currently at large.

The suspects who identified themselves as Paul Ibara, Ifeanyi Obi and Tunde Edu, confessed during an interview that poverty pushed them into crime.

Two of the suspects, Edu and Obi also disclosed that Ibara, who usually identified himself as Mopol lured them into the gang. The 36-year-old Ibara, a native of Akwa-Ibom State told Crime Guard that he went into crime because he wanted to save his father, who he said was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

”I live with my wife and children at Ishaga. I went into crime because my father was sick.

He had prostate cancer. I was in Maiduguri, when he fell sick and I took excuse and came back to see him. When I saw him, his condition was very bad and the doctors wanted to do a surgery on him.

The hospital at Uyo demanded N450,000 but they could not do it and they referred us to a hospital in Ghana where they demanded N800,000.

Culled from: Vanguard

Fashola forced me into crime- kidnapper

In January 2013, a four-year-old boy, Alonge Oluwa Tumishe, was abducted on his way to school at Ishaga area of Lagos State, by a five-man kidnap gang, who took him to Abeokuta, Ogun State and received a ransom of N5 million before he was released. Relatives of the victim, who were said to be owners of a popular school within Ishaga, were thrown into confusion following the incident and have been forced into reclusive lifestyle to prevent a repeat of the incident.

Meanwhile,  police authorities, yesterday, disclosed that its operatives at the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, SIRT, trailed the suspects to their hideouts in Ishaga, Agege and Egbeda areas of Lagos State, and arrested three of them.They also recovered also recovered a locally made gun, while two other members of the gang are currently at large.

The suspects who identified themselves as Paul Ibara, Ifeanyi Obi and Tunde Edu, confessed during an interview that poverty pushed them into crime.

Two of the suspects, Edu and Obi also disclosed that Ibara, who usually identified himself as Mopol lured them into the gang. The 36-year-old Ibara, a native of Akwa-Ibom State told Crime Guard that he went into crime because he wanted to save his father, who he said was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

”I live with my wife and children at Ishaga. I went into crime because my father was sick.

He had prostate cancer. I was in Maiduguri, when he fell sick and I took excuse and came back to see him. When I saw him, his condition was very bad and the doctors wanted to do a surgery on him.

The hospital at Uyo demanded N450,000 but they could not do it and they referred us to a hospital in Ghana where they demanded N800,000.

Culled from: Vanguard