Following the recent arrest of two members of a deadly kidnap gang at Onigbedu forest in Ewekoro Local Council of Ogun State, and aggressive bush combing embarked upon by men of Ogun State Police Command in search of the escaped members of the gang, one of the fleeing suspects, Usman Aliyu, has been arrested by the Command.  
     
The suspect was arrested on December 14, 2022, following information received by policemen at Ewekoro divisional headquarters that the suspect was sighted taking a commercial motorcycle at Onigbedu area, moving towards Papalanto en route Lagos, according to the police.
   
Upon the information, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Ewekoro division, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Sunday Opebiyi, quickly mobilised his men on stop and search along that road and the suspect was subsequently identified and promptly arrested.  
   
“On interrogation, he confessed to being a member of the kidnap gang, whose two members were earlier arrested and a victim rescued from them.  
   
“He informed the police that they were six in number, and that when two among them were apprehended, the other members ran into different directions in the forest. But since policemen are not relenting in searching for them in the bush, he decided to come out and take a commercial motorcycle out of that vicinity.
   
“He confessed further that it was their gang that was responsible for the kidnap of one Owolabi Abiodun and one Fakorede Kazeem at Kipe village, Idi ori Abeokuta on October 7, 2022, but Fakorede Kazeem was killed by the gang because he was unable to walk fast while they were being taken away in the bush,” the police said.
   
The suspect  said the gang also kidnapped the duo of  10-year-old Adekunle Esther and 15-year-old Adekunle Adebayo at Olomowewe Street, rounder, Abeokuta on October 10, 2022.  
   
He confessed further that, on October 19, 2022,the gang kidnapped one Mrs Famurewa at Abule Ijaye Soyooye, Abeokuta ,at the entrance of their house after killing her 65-year-old husband, one Festus Famurewa and later released the wife after collecting ransom. 
 
Also, on  November 16, 2022, the duo of Olatunji Azeez and Osoba Moroof were kidnapped by the same gang at Olujobi town Itori but were later set free after collecting ransom. 
 
All the victims, including the two kids have come forward to identify the suspects as those who abducted them. The state’s Commissioner of Police (CP), Lanre Bankole, who praised members of the public for supporting the police by giving them necessary information has given assurance that other members of the gang will be fished out wherever they might be, as the Command will make the state unconducive for them to operate.