One person was killed and four others were released after being abducted by unknown gunmen on their way from Aworo Village near Agbamu in Kwara State back to Oyan, Osun state. The victims were freed on Sunday after an alleged payment of N7m ransom.
According to reports, last Monday, Mrs. Grace Adepoju, the Iyalode of Oyan in Osun State, her surveyor, and four other people were kidnapped by gunmen at Aworo, a community on the border between Osun and Kwara States. The victims were attacked while returning from a commercial transaction in Agbamu around 6:30 pm.
While Mrs. Adepoju managed to escape from the kidnappers in the early hours of Tuesday, the other victims remained in the kidnappers’ den. Local hunters, Amotekun Corps operatives, and policemen were making efforts to free them.
While searching the bush for the kidnapped victims, the police team from Kwara State arrested two people who were suspected to be informants to the kidnappers. The suspects were found making calls inside the bush.
According to reports, someone close to one of the victims, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that four of the victims were released in a community in Kwara State on Sunday after a ransom of N7m was paid.
The person said, “One of the victims died in the den of the abductors. Four others were released in a bush in a community in Kwara State, in the early hours of Sunday after the abductors collected N7m ransom.”
The spokesperson for the Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kehinde Adeleke, would not comment on whether a ransom was paid, but confirmed that four of the abductees had been released and one had died.
“Four of the victims were released while one died in the den of the kidnappers. Three suspects were also arrested in connection with the incident,” she said.