Operatives of the Ondo State Security Network codenamed Amotekun Corp have rescued a
23-year-old student, Odey Regina Olayemi, and arrested the perpetrators.
Olayemi was rescued seven days after she was abducted.
Her abductors had collected N350,000 from her relatives before she was rescued.
Narrating her experience to journalists at the headquarters of Ondo Amotekun Corps, Olayemi said she was abducted while working at their farm located at Ago-Oyinbo village in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo state by four armed kidnappers.
Olayemi stated that she went to work with her sisters in order to get money to take back to school
“I went to the village to go and help my sisters before our resumption in order to get money to take to school.
“We were at the farm and suddenly we saw these three kidnappers coming towards where we were. I told my sisters that these Fulani people are coming to our side and that I’m going to run, but they said that I should not go anywhere and that they are not going to do anything to us.
“When they got to us, they asked us to kneel down and we knelt down. At that moment we started begging them. Two of them were with guns while the third person was with a cutlass. They later asked me to stand up and told me that I should be following them, they took a cassava stick and started beating me as we were going.
“I spent seven days with them. They asked for my dad’s number but I told them that I did not know it off-hand because I have already lost my memory. I later told them I did not have parents again, that they have died, and that I just came to the village to help my sisters so that I will get money to take care of myself when I get back to school.
“But they said it was a lie, that they knew everything about my family. I gave them my number because I was not with my phone on that day. Immediately I gave them my number, they started calling the phone. One of my sisters that came from Akure to our village picked up the call and they informed her that they have kidnapped me.
“It was that my sister who now went to the Amotekun office to report before Amotekun swung into action to rescue me and I thank God that they rescued me.”
Ondo Amotekun Commander, Adetunji Adeleye, said 29 suspected kidnappers and their collaborators have been arrested.
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Adeleye said: “The resurgence of kidnapping within the state made us to go deep into forests to fish out these kidnappers. We have a total number of 29 criminals, and about 20 of them are suspected kidnappers. We also invited all those that came to complain that they were kidnapped in the last three to four months in the state and they were able to identify the majority of them.
“As a matter of fact, we have to cross the river before we were able to arrest them, and we were equally attacked by the majority of them. We also found out that these criminals live in our forests along Ala-Dada, Jugbere, up to Ijagba and we were able to comb the forests.
“Some of these criminals engage in feeding victims, charging their phones, and a lot of other things that they do.
“This is to send a strong signal that even crossing the water will not deter Amotekun from fishing these criminals out of Ondo state. The only solution is for all these criminals and kidnappers to pack and leave Ondo State.”