Two brothers have been arrested for alleged kidnapping for ritual purposes in Ogun State, Police authorities in the state report in a post.
According to the statement released by the Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the two brothers who were paraded before reporters were identified as Ayomide Babatunde and Gbenga Babatunde.
SP Abimbola Oyeyemi in his statement revealed that the two brothers were in the early hours of Friday 30th of December 2022 arrested by men of Ogun state Police Command for kidnapping a woman and her nine years old son for ritual purposes.
He also stated that the suspects were arrested following information received by policemen at Oja odan divisional headquarters that the two brothers were negotiating on phone to sell a human being either in parts or alive depending on how the buyer wanted it for a money-making ritual.
The supposed buyer, one Jacob Olorunto then informed the Baale of the community about the intention of the suspects, and the Baale quickly informed the police. The supposed buyer was advised by the Police to play along with them in order to save the would-be victim.
“On the 27th of December 2022, the suspects called the supposed buyer Jacob Olorunto and informed him that they have two human beings, a woman and her male child for sale. They negotiated and settled for six hundred thousand naira (#600,000) as the price for the two persons.
On the 29th of December 2022, one of the suspects, Ayomide Babatunde went to Ilaro and lured his 45 years old woman friend by the name Taye Oluwole to follow him to Oja odan with her 9-year-old son
Remilekun Oluwole in order to celebrate New with his father. The woman innocently agreed to follow him, and along the road, they stopped over to pick the second suspect Gbenga Babatunde.
The two suspects from there, took the victim to Igbo Obe area of Ojo-odan to meet the supposed buyer Jacob Olorunto, but they were surrounded up by the policemen with the collaboration of youth in the area by 12:30 midnight, while the woman and her son were rescued.
The two suspects have confessed to the commission ot the crime,” the statement by the Police added.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police has ordered the suspects be transferred to the state criminal investigation department for further investigation and diligent prosecution.