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Ogun Community Leader’s Abductors Demand ₦100m Ransom

  • This latest abduction came barely a week after gunmen abducted two female students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) in Ago-Iwoye.

The abductors of a community leader in Imope town in Ijebu-North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Tajudeen Omotayo, have demanded a ransom of ₦100 million before they will release him.

He was abducted by gunmen on Saturday last week while returning from a meeting held in Ijebu-Ode town in his vehicle marked W3J9.

The community leader was reportedly accosted at the Oke-Eri area of Imope where the armed men forcefully took him away to an unknown destination abandoning his vehicle on the Ijebu-Ode – Oru – Ibadan Road.

Read also: Suspected Herdsmen Abduct Ogun Community Leader

Omotayo’s Abductors however reached out to his family two days after his abduction demanding a ₦100m ransom for his release.

The Ogun State Police Command also said the victim’s family lodged a report that the kidnappers had demanded a ransom.

Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, stated that the command would not be part of the arrangement to pay a ransom for the victim’s freedom.

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