Three policemen were said to have been abducted in broad daylight by suspected gunmen in Ogun State on Thursday at Wasinmi, in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The police operatives, it was also learnt, had visited Ogun State from Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos State, for an investigation.
According to sunnewsonline, they were duly booked at the police division in Wasinmi, before they left for their place of primary assignment.
A very liable source told sunnewsonline that the officers, led by Inspector Oladipo Olayemi, were waylaid on the road by their abductors, who accosted them at about 2:30pm.
It was further gathered that the commercial driver, who conveyed the cops escaped by the whiskers from the kidnappers.
Confirming the incident, the Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, reportedly said that only one policeman was kidnapped alongside several others.
Oyeyemi told sunnewsonline that the police is on the trail of the kidnappers, assuring that the victims would be rescued.
“We are on the trail of the kidnappers. Do you think we are going to keep quiet? We will get them and rescue the victims unhurt”, he said
He added that men of the anti-kidnapping unit are on the trail of the kidnapper.
Credit: sunnewsonline