Ogun: AFAN commends govt, security agencies over release of abducted farmer

The All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, Ogun State Chapter, has commended the authorities authorities and information agencies for the swift involution that led to the merchandise of their colleague, Mr Oreoluwa Osonuga.

DAILY POST learnt that Osonuga, 33, a poultry farmer, was abducted connected August 9, 2026, portion driving retired of the workplace colony successful Ikenne.

The gunmen were said to person intercepted his vehicle, changeable astatine it and forcibly dragged him into a adjacent bush.

The improvement heightened concerns among farmers successful the settlement, peculiarly aft the abductors reportedly established interaction with the victim’s household and demanded N500 cardinal for his release.

Security operatives, including the constabulary anti-kidnapping portion and subject personnel, subsequently commenced a hunt cognition successful the surrounding forest, starring to the farmer’s release.

AFAN, successful a connection signed by its Public Relations Officer, Sogunle Rotimi, on Friday, expressed “profound appreciation” for the deployment of information apparatus to unafraid the farmer’s release.

The relation noted that the palmy involution had demonstrated the value of effectual information successful protecting farmers and sustaining cultivation activities, peculiarly successful agrarian and f...