Osun police rescue kidnap victim, recover ransom, arrest suspects

The Osun State Police Command has rescued a kidnapped unfortunate unharmed, recovered N2,217,800 suspected to beryllium ransom proceeds and arrested a suspected kidnapper during a tactical cognition aimed astatine tackling convulsive transgression crossed the state.

The Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Gotan, disclosed this on Wednesday during a property briefing successful Osogbo, wherever helium outlined caller achievements of the Command successful its combat against kidnapping, cultism, ritual-related crimes and different transgression activities.

According to the constabulary commissioner, “the victim, Haruna Yusuf, a 50-year-old Fulani herdsman, was abducted connected 9 July 2026 from a distant colony adjacent Wasinmi Village on the Gbongan-Ife-Ibadan Road by 4 suspected kidnappers.”

He said constabulary operatives, moving alongside section vigilantes, instantly launched a hunt operation, combing adjacent forests and surrounding routes earlier transferring the lawsuit to the Command’s Violent Crime Response Unit, VCRU, for tactical investigation.

Gotan explained that connected July 12, operatives carried retired an intelligence-led cognition portion intimately monitoring the ransom outgo process astatine Majeroku on the Ibadan-Ife Expressway.

He said, “The squad successfully rescued the unfortunate unhurt. The kidnappers, connected sighting the operatives, opened occurrence and the constabulary arsenic responded professionally, starring to a weapon duel during which immoderate of the suspec...