Police in Ekiti have placed a N5 million bounty on four suspected kidnappers on the run, spokesman Sunday Abutu said yesterday in a statement in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.
Abutu identified the suspects as Banji Akeem, Samuel Ebira, Dele Jimoh and Dayo Igwe said said to be members of a kidnap gang allegedly responsible for some high-profile abductions in the state in the last two years.
Four alleged members of the gang in custody reportedly named the four who are on the run.
According to him, the suspects were involved in the abduction of prominent Ekiti citizens in the state.
Abutu said the arrested suspects confessed that they were involved in various kidnappings in the state.
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“They confirmed to be the brain behind the abduction of one Olowo Bola of Ipoti-Ekiti and the late Chief Abiodun Ajayi, who died from the injuries sustained when he jumped from the kidnappers’ vehicle earlier this year,” he said.
The PPRO said the suspects usually kept their victims in the house of one Chief Ogunremi, now deceased, in the Water Works area of Ado-Ekiti or in Ayere, a forest in Kogi.
A Toyota Corolla car, 13 rounds of live cartridges and two guns were recovered.
He said the suspects arrested included the food supplier to the alleged kidnappers and a vulcaniser, who was their informant.
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