Suspected kidnappers abduct man, rob driver in Ogun 

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a driver, and robbed and wounded another near Delabo Junction, along the Sagamu/Ijebu-Ode expressway.
   
The Guardian learnt that the incident occurred on Sunday, June 30, at about 7:10 a.m.
  
The unspecified number of armed men driving in an unregistered Venza Toyota car, trailed the victim who was in his grey coloured Toyota RAV4 Jeep with number plate, Lagos – AGL-16-JE, to a rough patch of the road, and blocked him.
 
The criminals, thereafter, fired rounds of ammunition believed to be from an AK-47 into the driver’s rear and front tyres. They alighted and forced the man into their own vehicle, and sped off towards Ijebu-Ode.  
 
Confirming the development yesterday, the spokesperson for Ogun State Police Command, SP Omolola Odutola, said the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ikenne promptly responded to the incident.
  
According to her, during the incident, the hoodlums also shot the driver of a black Toyota Camry car with number plate, Lagos – AAA-04-JB, inflicting injury on his left leg.

She said a bus driver travelling from Abuja to Lagos in the Ilisan area was also stopped by the criminals, who smashed his windscreen and snatched his mobile phone.

Odutola added: “The injured driver has been promptly taken to Babcock University Teaching Hospital in Ilisan and is currently responding to treatment. No lives were lost. But the two vehicles damaged by the fleeing suspects have been recovered and towed to the police station. Further updates will be communicated to members of the public, as the identity of the kidnapped victim is yet unknown. 

“The Commissioner of Police, Alamutu Abiodun Mustapha, has been briefed. He has detailed the anti-kidnapping unit to take up the investigation.”
 

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