Ogun State: The New Kidnappers Heaven

The spate of insecurity cum kidnapping in the state have hit its peak going by the. "even the available" records. In recent times a numbers of kidnapping incidents accross the state have been in the news where some of the victims have to pact with fortunes in addition with various inhuman and life threatening treatment melted out on those involved. According to one of the victims "I received my first dirty slap when I laugh to the demand as I told them that even a state government cannot boast of having that amount (#5billion) For seven days they used cloth to blindfold me and were transferring me from one end to the other’ said Alhaji Safiriyu Araba. For Mr Segun Oyebolu, "In leg chains, tied hands and blind-folded face I lived 3 horrifying days of hell in a town I have come to embrace. I mentioned the more than 100 staff across the country who require my signature to get their salary paid - for them, those are bullshits! Money they want, money they must get. N400M only. Any attempt to open my mouth to negotiate end up in additional severe beatings including hot-knife slicing of my flesh" Details of the victims of Kidnapping incidents in the state are briefly discussed herein. Segun Oyebolu, the owner of Citi Hotels & Suites who is also the founder of an NGO, Feed The Elderly Foundation was kidnapped from his office at Erinlu area of Odogbolu LGA of Ogun State on Monday Sept 24th, 2012. He was held for "3 horrifying days of hell" with a lot of beating and torture according to Oyebolu himself. Alhaja Obedatu Abudu Balogun mother of the deputy chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Internal Security, Abiodun Abudu-Balogun. The abductors/kidnappers reportedly stormed the Ita-Otu, Ijebu Waterside Local Government Area residence of at about 9.30pm on Monday 23th October 2012 and forcibly took her away to an unknown destination. Unlike, Oyebolu the family of the victim did not give details of the release, neither did they disclose whether they paid a ransom to free her from her captors. On November 13, 2012 Alhaji Safiriyu Araba (a.k.a Aranse Oluwa). He is the Chairman of Aranse Oluwa Building materials company in Ago iwoye and Ijebu Ode .He is a native of Ago iwoye. He was held for seven days, and was blindfolded and given the bitter treatment he had never experience in life prior to that day throughout his days in the kidnappers den. Mrs Folashade Onademuren, wife of Samson Onademuren, a member of House of Assembly representing Ijebu North constituency in Ogun State was kidnapped on the 4th of December 2012 around 12:00pm at her hubby’s property in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State Nigeria. While the above (high profile) kidnapping cases were successful, there were other foiled kidnapping attempts in Abeokuta where two suspects – Ronke Akindele and Life Nwem – were arrested in Eruwon and Idi-Ori areas of the city respectively when they attempted to kidnap their victims (BASIT and ITUNU) in separate incidents.