A suspected 37-year-old kidnapper, Olarinde Adekunle, who threatened to abduct three students of a private university in Oyo through a letter has been nabbed.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, who revealed this added that the threat caused academic activities to stop within the university, leading to up panic in the university community.
Osifeso said the suspect thinking having gotten away with the first attempt, went ahead to repeat same with a branch office of a new generation bank within Owode Area, in Oyo, with the intention of invading it later.
He said, “A notorious kidnapping syndicate sent a ‘hand-written’ note to the management of a private university institution, in Oyo town wherein they threatened to abduct three of its students should the management fail to pay up (N10,000,000) ten million naira within a stipulated period.
“Consequent upon the above, discreet forensic based investigations were carried out and this led to the arrest of one Azeez Mufutau ‘M’ whose phone numbers were inscribed on the ‘hand-written notes’ sent to both the school management and the bank.
“Upon questioning, the suspect confirmed that the phone number on the note was his but denied being the author of the document.
“The investigation further led to the arrest of one Olarinde Adekunle ‘M’ age 37 who confessed to being the author the hand-written notes under scrutiny and added that Azeez Mufutau was used as a decoy for the purpose of concealing his direct involvement.”
