Oyo CP Denies Abduction Of 25 Persons In Ibarapa

…Parades 4 Suspected Kidnappers, 33 Others For
Sodomy

Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mrs. Ngozi Onadeko, has
said the news that 25 persons were kidnapped within 24 hours in
Ibarapa area of the state was untrue.

Besides, she paraded four suspected kidnappers that were
arrested also in Ibarapa before journalists on Thursday evening.
She also paraded 33 other suspects arrested on the allegations of
sodomy, armed robbery, pickpocketing, internet fraud and so on.

News had filtered into the town on Thursday afternoon that an
18-seater bus from Abeokuta in Ogun State, transporting passengers
along Igboora-Eruwa Road, was attacked by some gunmen and all the
18 passengers in the bus were abducted to an unknown
destination.

Another seven persons were reportedly kidnapped on Wednesday
evening by gunmen, also in Ibarapa. Though the convener of Igangan
Development Advocates, Mr. Oladiran Oladokun, said the incidents
occurred in Ibarapa, the police boss in the state said the
Divisional Police Officer of Igboora and the Area Commander for
Ibarapa were with her and they said nothing of such happened.

Onadeko, however, urged all the residents of the state to go
about their normal business activities with any fear, adding that
members of the public should give credible information to the
police to enhance security architecture of the state.

The four suspected kidnappers were in two groups of three and
one. The three were arrested on Ayete, the headquarters of Ibarapa
North Local Government. The trio was arrested for allegedly
kidnapping a farmer, Yanmin Kereku, and collected a ransom of
N30,000 from him. The other one suspect was arrested in Eruwa, the
headquarters of Ibarapa East Local Government. But they all denied
the allegations levelled against them.

Also, the pickpockets and the suspected internet fraudsters were
30 in number. They confessed that they were initially operating in
Lagos State and had to relocate to Ibadan, when Lagos became too
hot for them.

On getting to Ibadan, according to the police, lodged in one
hotel and they divided a themselves into two. One group would go to
town to pickpockets, whether the other group would stay back in the
hotel and would work on the sim cards of stolen phones to defraud
contacts on the victims’ phones.

The suspects also included one Olawuyi Ebenezer, 30, who alleged
sodomised two students of two private schools in Ibadan. He claimed
to be a teacher and the two boys that he had sexual intercourse
with were between 12 and 14 years. He said he did not know what led
him into the act.

According to him, he lured the last boy into the act when he
invited him to his house Ouse to help him arrange exam scripts. He
added that the first boy he sodomised was a student in a private
school, where he taught before moving to another school.

…Parades 4 Suspected Kidnappers, 33 Others For
Sodomy

Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mrs. Ngozi Onadeko, has
said the news that 25 persons were kidnapped within 24 hours in
Ibarapa area of the state was untrue.

Besides, she paraded four suspected kidnappers that were
arrested also in Ibarapa before journalists on Thursday evening.
She also paraded 33 other suspects arrested on the allegations of
sodomy, armed robbery, pickpocketing, internet fraud and so on.

News had filtered into the town on Thursday afternoon that an
18-seater bus from Abeokuta in Ogun State, transporting passengers
along Igboora-Eruwa Road, was attacked by some gunmen and all the
18 passengers in the bus were abducted to an unknown
destination.

Another seven persons were reportedly kidnapped on Wednesday
evening by gunmen, also in Ibarapa. Though the convener of Igangan
Development Advocates, Mr. Oladiran Oladokun, said the incidents
occurred in Ibarapa, the police boss in the state said the
Divisional Police Officer of Igboora and the Area Commander for
Ibarapa were with her and they said nothing of such happened.

Onadeko, however, urged all the residents of the state to go
about their normal business activities with any fear, adding that
members of the public should give credible information to the
police to enhance security architecture of the state.

The four suspected kidnappers were in two groups of three and
one. The three were arrested on Ayete, the headquarters of Ibarapa
North Local Government. The trio was arrested for allegedly
kidnapping a farmer, Yanmin Kereku, and collected a ransom of
N30,000 from him. The other one suspect was arrested in Eruwa, the
headquarters of Ibarapa East Local Government. But they all denied
the allegations levelled against them.

Also, the pickpockets and the suspected internet fraudsters were
30 in number. They confessed that they were initially operating in
Lagos State and had to relocate to Ibadan, when Lagos became too
hot for them.

On getting to Ibadan, according to the police, lodged in one
hotel and they divided a themselves into two. One group would go to
town to pickpockets, whether the other group would stay back in the
hotel and would work on the sim cards of stolen phones to defraud
contacts on the victims’ phones.

The suspects also included one Olawuyi Ebenezer, 30, who alleged
sodomised two students of two private schools in Ibadan. He claimed
to be a teacher and the two boys that he had sexual intercourse
with were between 12 and 14 years. He said he did not know what led
him into the act.

According to him, he lured the last boy into the act when he
invited him to his house Ouse to help him arrange exam scripts. He
added that the first boy he sodomised was a student in a private
school, where he taught before moving to another school.