Crime
Notorious kidnappers terrorizing the Lagos-Ibadan expressway arrested, N7.5 million cash recovered, including new Naira notes
The Oyo State Police Command has arrested ten suspected members of a kidnapping syndicate terr%rizing Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
It is reported that the suspects were responsible for the abduction of a former deputy vice chancellor, University of Ibadan, Prof Adigun Agbaje, who was kidnapped at the Onigaari axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway around 6pm on October 28, 2022. A ransom of N10million was said to have been collected before he was released but he sustained a gun bullet injury on his head. They were also responsible for abducting seven other persons along the expressway.
It is said that three of the suspects were responsible for the killing of a United States-based hotelier, Gbenga Owolabi, and a final-year student of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Rachael Opadele.
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