Some passengers kidnapped alongside Ipetumodu-Ilesha expressway in Osun state have been rescued by Amotekun.
The Chairman of the Council of Amotekun Commanders within the South-West area, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, stated the victims together with two kids, have been kidnapped whereas travelling to Ado-Ekiti from Lagos on Christmas eve.
Adeleye defined that the hoodlums stopped the car round 9:30 pm and ordered all of the passengers into the bush, dispossessed them of the telephones, ATM playing cards and different valuables whereas they saved the victims of their den.
He stated the abductors had been contacting the households of their victims, negotiating for his or her freedom earlier than the Amotekun Corps, rescued them.
The Ondo Amotekun Commander nonetheless, stated that his males responded to a misery name, chasing the criminals to their den the place all of the victims have been rescued however their abductors fled from the scene.
Based on him, the rescue operation was carried out by the joint staff of Amotekun in Ondo and Osun states concerned within the inter-border patrol within the southwest, saying they're on the path of the abductors with an assurance that they'd be apprehended.
"Around 1 am, we got a distress call from one of the families of the kidnap victims that the Kidnappers called, asking for ransom. We thereafter moved into action. We were able to track the Kidnappers. The victims were rescued and some of their valuables were retrieved but the Kidnappers ran away," he said.
"It was alongside Ipetumodu axis in Osun state and after we acquired to a village about 10km away from the street, we discovered that the den is an everyday dump space for Kidnappers as a result of we discovered so many gadgets which present that it's a everlasting place the place they maintain kidnap victims. "Nonetheless, we have been in a position to rescue 9 victims and a car. Our males are nonetheless there within the bush trailing the Kidnappers however our main concern was to rescue the victims. Our medical staff have been attending to them and after completion, we'd take them to their varied locations to allow them to reunite with their households"Adeleye stated the transfer is to additional reassure particularly, the folks of Ondo and Osun states, that Amotekun would cease at nothing in becoming a member of forces with different safety companies at making certain that criminals are pushed away from the states.
Narrating her ordeal, one of many victims, Ife Balogun, stated they have been travelling from Lagos to Ekiti state earlier than the unlucky incident.
She stated the driving force took the abductors for safety operatives on the street however they turned out to be criminals, ordering them out of the car.
She added that their abductors saved them within the forest for a number of hours earlier than the intervention of Amotekun corps, saying the abductors fled with valuables.
