Kidnappings: Osun traditional rulers demand urgent action

Traditional rulers successful Osun State person called for contiguous authorities involution pursuing a surge successful kidnapping incidents crossed respective communities, peculiarly successful borderline areas.

The entreaty was made by the Osun State Council of Obas aft deliberations connected worsening information challenges affecting residents successful antithetic parts of the state.

The meeting, convened astatine the palace of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, brought unneurotic monarchs to measure the increasing menace posed by abductions.

In a communiqué issued aft the meeting, the Council warned that kidnapping activities were becoming progressively predominant and alarming.

The statement, signed by the Elerinmo of Erinmo-Ijesha, Oba Michael Odunayo Ajayi, highlighted circumstantial incidents that person heightened fears among residents.

According to the monarchs, “communities specified arsenic Ora-Igbomina successful Ifedayo Local Government Area person witnessed a troubling emergence successful abductions.”

They cited the lawsuit of a retired Customs officer, Emmanuel Owolabi, who was kidnapped successful December 2025 and reportedly held for astir a period earlier regaining his freedom.