Samuel Awoyinfa
Two suspected members of a kidnap gang were shot dead on Thursday as they engaged operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad in a gun battle in Odeda area of Ogun State.
The FSARS had gone to rescue the wife of a pastor allegedly kidnapped by the suspects when they engaged the operatives in a gun battle.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said trouble started at about 1pm on the fateful day when a distress call was made to the police that one Mrs. Ajayi, a pastor’s wife, had been kidnapped along the Abeokuta-Ibadan Road.
The woman, who boarded a taxi going to Eleweran, was forcibly taken to a bush in Kila village in Odeda, where she was held hostage.
He said the kidnappers from the location put a call across to Ajayi’s husband, informing him that his wife was in their custody and demanded a N2m ransom.
Oyeyemi, an Assistant…
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