By Ademola Adeleke
The Ekiti State Police Command has declared that anyone with information on the whereabouts of one Banji Akeem, Samuel Ebira, Dele Jimoh and Dayo Igwe, would be rewarded with five million naira.
According to the Police Public Relations officer, Sunday Abutu, the suspects were involved in the abduction of prominent Ekiti citizens in the last two years.
He said that suspects already arrested “mentioned one Banji Akeem a.k.a Oro, who was earlier arrested by the RRS operatives for the offence of armed robbery and still in custody. They also mentioned one Samuel a.k.a Samuel Ebira, Jimoh Dele a.k.a Dele Petim, Dayo a.k.a Dayo Igwe and Johnson a.k.a Yellow Okada who are presently at large as other members of their gang.”.
The Command had paraded four Suspected Kidnappers who abducted a foremost petrol dealer in the state, Alhaji Sulaiman Akinbami, the wife of the late Surveyor General of the state, Mrs Osalusi Dapo, and some other prominent citizens of the state.
Addressing Journalists on the Success, the Public Relations Officer of the Command, Sunday Abutu, said the suspects were arrested through the relentless efforts of the men of the command
He said that the suspects, namely, Bunmi Ogunremi, Ige Adu, Taiwo Fayoke and one other, confessed that they had been involved in various kidnappings and that, they were also behind the abduction of one Olowo Bola of Ipoti Ekiti and the late chief Abiodun Ajayi, who died from the injuries sustained while he jumped from the kidnappers vehicle, earlier this year, in Ado Ekiti.
The PPRO explained that the suspects usually keep their victims in the house of late Chief Ogunremi, located around Water Works area of Ado or sometimes Ayere, a forest in Kogi state.
Items recovered from the suspects included, one Toyota Corolla car, thirteen rounds of live catridges, cut to size guns and two locally made double barrel guns
He said that efforts were on to arrest other members of the gang who were at large.
The police thanked those who gave them the information that led to their arrest, promising not to relent till crime was nipped in the bud in the state.
Some of the suspects in an interview confessed to the crime.
