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Kidnappers along the Ipetumodu -Ilesa Expressway in Osun State attacked travelers on Saturday abducting nine people including toddlers.
However, the victims were rescued after their kidnap by a joint patrol team of Amotekun corps in Osun and Ondo State.
Chairman of the Council of Amotekun Commanders in the South-West region and Ondo State Commander of the corps, Akogun Adeleye, said after the rescue, efforts are on to arrest the kidnappers.
He said Amotekun responded to a distress call on Saturday and immediately moved into the forest to rescue the victims, who were travellers.
Adeleye said, “Around 1am, we got a distress call from one of the families of the kidnap victims that the kidnappers called, asking for ransom. We thereafter moved into action. We were able to track the kidnappers.
“The victims were rescued and some of their valuables were retrieved but the kidnappers ran away. It was along Ipetumodu axis in Osun State and when we got to a village about 10 kilometres away from the road, we found out that the den was a regular dump area for kidnappers because we found so many items which shows that it is a permanent place where they keep kidnap victims…
