OYO POLICE COMMAND ARRESTED 5 SUSPECTED KIDNAPPERS FOR ALLEGEDLY KILLING POULTRY FARMER

The Police boss said,” the kidnappers who murdered their victim, Sunday Aladeniyi were arrested on Friday September 7,2018 at about 1830 hours by the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of the command . The suspects after collecting ransom killed the victim because he could identify one of them.

He added,” Infact, one of the kidnappers who was very close to the victim caused his death because he thought the victim would expose him . ”

Speaking with journalists in an interview, one of the suspected kidnappers, Abdullahi Musa, who confessed to the heinous crime, pleaded for leniency, while others narrated their sundry roles that led to the kidnap and murder of the poultry farm owner.

He revealed that one of the staff of the victim who was very close to the deceased had invited other members of the gang , mainly Fulani herders to kidnap their boss and were given N20,000 each out of the money collected from the family as ransom.

Penpushing reports that the suspect said, they had no plans to kill the poultry farmer until one of them raised the alarm that if allowed to go, he (Aladeniyi) would reveal their identify.

In a related development, among those  paraded were nine students’ cultists of the Polytechnic, Ibadan said to be involved in the killing of a fellow student, Olatunji Hammed a.k.a. Maku in cold blood around Apete area of Ibadan on   August 27, 2018.

The self confessed students’ cultists most whom were on their final year in the institution told journalists that the reason for their membership of various cult groups on the campus was to fight against oppression, injustice and intimidation.

The Commissioner of Police said the students were arrested through diligence investigation carried out by the Anti-Robbery section of the State Criminal Investigation Department (CIID) which led to the arrest of more suspects and recovery of arms, ammunition and other exhibits.

Penpushing reports that, apart from the locally made cut to size single barrel gun recovered from the cult members, other exhibits recovered from the cultists include two axes, cutlasses and charms