In Edo State: K!dnappers Abdůct Police Inspector, Four Others

Описание: BENIN CITY – AKOKO- The Edo Local Government Area in Edo State seemed to be under siege of k!dnappers as five persons, including a police officer were reportedly abducted in two separate operations by suspected k!dnappers in the area.

K!dnappings have become a daily occurrence in the council to the extent that the council authority and the traditional rulers imposed a curfew from 9p.m. to 6a.m. daily.

It was gathered that the first two were k!dnapped at the Makeke Primary Health Centre, where the gunmen reportedly k!dnapped Tope Oriloye, a female secondary school student and Samuel Ilesanmi, who had rushed his son to the health centre with his wife on February 8, while the other happened at residence of a Police Inspector, Segun Obanowa in Auchi from Uma/Imoga, where he was k!dnapped alongside his wife and daughter but that his wife was later released to go and arrange for ransom to free her husband and daughter.

In a statement, yesterday, in Benin City, National Coordinator, Movement for the Advancement of Akoko Edo People, Bode Ekundayo, said the k!dnappers, who abducted Oriloye and Ilesanmi had already contacted the family, asking for N100 million ransom for both of them.

He said: “Daring k!dnappers struck again in Akoko Edo, this time at Makeke village, less than a kilometre from Ososo in the eastern part of Akoko Edo, taking away a secondary school female student, Tope Oriloye and Samuel Ilesanmi on February 8, at the community health centre.

“In a similar operation in Auchi, k!dnappers invaded the residence of Police Inspector, Segun Obanowa from Uma/Imoga in Akoko Edo and k!dnapped him, his wife and daughter, later releasing his wife to go look for ransom to free her husband and daughter.”

Ekundayo noted that hunters and vigilantees in Makeke mobilised and entered the bushes, combing far and near till the early hours of the following day without positive result.

He added: “However the k!dnappers called in the evening on February 9, to ask for N100 million for Tope Oriloye and Samuel Ilesanmi to be released.

“This trend of demanding N100 million to commence ransom negotiation is becoming a familiar thing, having manifested its irritating trend in previous k!dnap ransom negotiations.”

The group called on the Edo State government and Akoko Edo council authority to take action and save the local government from the siege of k!dnappers.
The Police in the state confirmed the incident.

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