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A popular businessman was on Wednesday kidnapped by gunmen who attacked him and his aides in Oke-Onigbin, Isin Local Government Area of Kwara State.
The man, popularly known as Alaga Olayemi, was ambushed by seven gunmen in the evening while returning home from his maize farm in the town.
According to sources in the community, Mr Olayemi was with two aides who escaped the attack with injuries.
Confirming the report, the spokesperson of the police in Kwara, Ajayi Okasanmi, said the police were making efforts to rescue the businessman.
“One Alhaji Alaga Olayemi was reportedly kidnapped in his farm at Oke-Onigbin by seven unknown gunmen, intensive effort to rescue him has been activated by the Commissioner of Police, CP Mohammed Lawal Bagega,” he told our correspondent on Friday.
24-year-old, sister plans own kidnap in Ilorin
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A 24-year-old graduate of Muyideen College of Education, Zango-Kulende, Ilorin, Kwara State, Medinat Ibrahim, has been arrested for conspiring with two other suspects to plan her own kidnap.
Parading the suspects at the state police headquarters in Ilorin on Wednesday, the spokesman of the command, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, who addressed newsmen named two other suspects who conspired with Medinat, as Amudalat Wahab (f) 30, and Hammed Lekan (m) 28.
He said “On January 2, 2021, at 1750 hrs, an information was received from one Nurudeen Solagberu (m) of Oko-Olowo area of Ilorin through the command’s emergency telephone line, to the effect that one Ibrahim Medinat (f) of Olude Oke-Fomo area, Ilorin was kidnapped by unknown persons.