Ilorin.
The Police Command in Kwara state says it has arrested 2 suspects in connection with with the kidnap of a cleric,Alfa Sofiu Amolegbe, his sibling, Fasansi, and son, Aliyu.
The Police Public Relations Officer PPRO for the Police Command in the state,SP Okasanmi Ajayi, who disclosed this in Ilorin while confirming the story, added that two suspects had been nabbed in connection with the incident.
“The Command is already investigating the matter. Effort is also at an advanced stage to get the victims rescued. Meanwhile, two suspects already arrested, please,” he told the Leadership.
Our Correspondent gathered the victims were attacked at their private residence in Oko-Olowo along Ilorin-Jebba expressway, north central Nigeria, after the suspected kidnappers removed the burglary of a window in their building to gain entry.
Sources said that attempt by Fasansi to escape was met with stiff opposition as the suspects shot and matcheted him.
The father of the victims, Imam Amolegbe of Dada, Okelele area, Ilorin, told LEADERSHIP that the kidnappers abandoned Fasasi, thinking he was dead, adding that Fasasi was receiving responding to treatment at a private hospital in Ilorin.
Imam Amolegbe said the kidnappers had contacted the family, demanding for N100m ransom.
“The kidnappers have contacted us and they are asking for N100m ransom.
” We have begged them to accept N10m,, even though we don’t have the money.
“I am appealing to the state government and men of goodwill to assist us in getting my two sons and grandson out of the den of the kidnappers,” the cleric said.
Meanwhile,some of the cleric’s associates are said to have commenced special prayers for safe return of the victims.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
