The Ogun State Community, Social Orientation, and Safety Corps, known as So-Safe Corps, successfully rescued a 17-year-old boy, Otohu Moses, who was reportedly kidnapped on Monday.
According to the victim’s father, Sunday Iboin, the incident was reported to the So-Safe Corps on Tuesday. He explained that his son was abducted while he was relieving himself at the back of the house. The suspected kidnappers, believed to be from the neighborhood, allegedly demanded a ransom of N1.5 million.
The information was conveyed in a press statement issued on Wednesday by the Office of the State Commander of the Corps, Soji Ganzallo, through the Office of the Director of Information and Public Relations, Moruf Yusuf.
The statement partly read, “On Tuesday, January 30, 2024, one Sunday Iboin came to the Olorunda Post of the Corps to report that his son, Otohu Moses, was kidnapped at Olorunsogo Community, Olorunda in Abeokuta North Local Government Area at about 2215hrs on Monday, January 29, 2024, while he went out to ease himself at the back of the house.
“When Sunday could not see his son return on time, he called his phone number several times and a man picked it up and told him in Yoruba language that his son had already been kidnapped.
“The father also said that the suspected kidnappers were asking for a ransom of N1,500,000.
“The victim’s father told us that he suspected one of his neighbours to have masterminded the kidnapping.”
The statement disclosed further that “the operational team of the Corps strategized, swung into action and then took the war to the alleged suspected kidnappers in the forest, some kilometers away from the point of kidnapping and the boy was rescued unhurt, though, with marks of cane on his body while the three armed kidnappers escaped with one motorcycle.”
The rescued victim was said to have been handed over to operatives of the state police command attached to Imala Divisional Police Headquarters.
