How Police Pinned Down Bloody Fulani Kidnapper Exposed By Kinsmen in Ogun

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Ogun State commissioner of police (CP) Edward Ajogun has coordinated an operation with assistance from Fulani men leading to the arrest of their kinsman identified as a suspected kidnap-kingpin who escaped from Oyo State after killing a victim.

NewsmakersNG learnt that Ajogun’s men smoked out the young man identified as Usman Hassan from his hideout in Ogun.

According to Ogun State police spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Hassan’s accomplices had earlier been arrested in Oyo State where they had kidnapped and killed a farm owner at Solalu village after collecting a ransom.

Oyeyemi told NewsmakersNG: “On getting to Ogun State, he started recruiting other Fulani men to form another kidnap gang in Ogun State. He ran out of luck when detectives of Ogun State Police Command got information about his activity from those Fulani people he had tried to recruit into his kidnapping team. His hideout in Imala area was stormed by the detectives and he was promptly arrested.

“On interrogation, he confessed that he conspired with his biological brother one Tahiru Usman and others to kidnap their victim in Akinyele area of Ibadan and that they decided to kill the man after collecting ransom because the man could identify them.

“Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Edward A. Ajogun has directed that the suspect be transferred to the Anti-kidnapping Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for onward transfer to Oyo State Command where he will be prosecuted.”