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| Mrs Florence Popoola. 67 year old kidnap victim |
The Ekiti state police command has paraded five suspects who kidnapped 67 year old Florence Popoola In Ikere-Ekiti on the 14th of September 2017 after returning from church.
The kidnappers, who made away with the victim’s Nissan Sunny car were able to make the family cough out 1.5 Million Naira paid as Ransome.
According to the Police Public Relations Officer in Ekiti state Supretendent Alberto Adeyemi “On receipt of incident report, I,( the state commissioner of Police) immediately tasked the State Intelligence Bureau(SIB) to ensure the perpetrators are brought to book and the victim is rescued unhurt. The victim was later released on 18th September, 2017 at about 20.00hrs”
With the arrest of five suspects in connection with the kidnap, a sum of #323,500 was recovered from the suspects.
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| The suspected kidnappers paraded by the Ekiti state police command |
Reliving her experience, Mrs Florence Popoola who spoke in Yoruba said she was kidnapped from her home and kept in the bush walking from one location to another for four days without any good treatment from her abductors.
“When my abductors got the payment from my family, they told me it was time for me to go. They took me on a bike and we travelled for about one hour, when they dropped me off, they asked me to keep trekking that my children will trace me with the phone they gave. I can’t operate the phone but saw a hunter who later helped me and some church members whom I believed were on prayer mountain. They later helped me to contact my children.”
One of the suspects Adeoye Sunday however confessed to the crime with the police command reiterating its resolve to stamp out crime and criminality in the state.
