The Ondo State Safety Community Company, codenamed Amotekun Corps, has prevented the fee of N150 million ransom demanded by suspected kidnappers.
The safety company rescued 5 kidnapped victims in two completely different places throughout the state with out paying the ransom.
They’d demanded N100 million and N50 million, and the households have been negotiating with completely different quantities earlier than the intervention of the safety company.
The Commander of Amotekun Corps, Akogun Aderunji Adeleye, stated 4 of the victims have been kidnapped on their means from the farm alongside the Ore-Ijebu Ode-Lagos expressway.
The opposite sufferer, he stated, was rescued by Amotekun officers after spending days within the forest with suspected kidnappers. He was rescued round Ifon forest 5 days after he was kidnapped at his Upemen residence on Owo-Ikare street.
Adeleye stated the armed kidnappers had demanded over N150 million ransom from the victims’ households earlier than Amotekun foiled the operations.
The safety Chief disclosed that Governor Fortunate Aiyedatiwa-led Administration had given a directive on the necessity to flush out kidnappers and disabuse the ugly development of paying ransom.
Adeleye, who stated particular Amotekun rangers had been deployed into the key forests and places within the state to curb criminalities, introduced that over twelve armed theft and kidnapping instances had been combated by Amotekun officers alongside the Ore-Lagos street, significantly the Ondo-Ogun state boundary.
The Amotekun Commander appealed to the state’s folks to all the time present well timed safety info, to make sure correct enforcement of the anti-open grazing legislation towards defaulting herdsmen.
Two of the victims, Mr Ayodele and Emmanuel Adeniran, expressed appreciation to Amotekun Corps for rescuing them from premature demise, as they confirmed that the abductors had threatened to kill them if ransom was not paid on time.
Adeniran stated he trekked within the bush for 5 days earlier than males of Amotekun got here to his rescue within the Akoko axis of the state.
The Amotekun Commander, nonetheless, declined to touch upon the arrested kidnappers, to not jeopardise the continued investigations by the corps.
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