Fayose Petitions IG As Three More Women Are Kidnapped In Ekiti

Three unidentified women were kidnapped in Ekiti State today by unknown gunmen. The women were kidnapped with their husbands and unspecified number of children along Igbole-Igbosin road while travelling in a Toyota RAV 4 Sports Utility Vehicle to Ibadan, Oyo state, for a wedding.

It was gathered that their captors later dropped the men and the children while the women were driven away in the car after collecting the phones and other valuables from the victims. Continue...

The husbands and the children were said to be wailing profusely until some sympathisers came to their aid.

The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Alberto Adeyemi, confirmed the report to our correspondent.

“The Divisional Police Officer in Ido called in today to give the report about the kidnapped women. We have already launched investigation into the case but I can’t speak about it,” he said.

The whereabouts of the women remained unknown while contact had not been established with the families as of press time.

No fewer than five people, including a former Chief Medical Director of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Dr Patrick Adegun; his wife, Kikelomo; a senior nurse at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, Mrs Margaret Aladenika; and a lecturer of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, had been kidnapped in the last two weeks in the state.

Meanwhile, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has written the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, calling for his intervention to stem the spate of kidnappings that had hit the state in the last few weeks.