Police rescue abducted farm workers in Kwara
Kwara State Police Command said the farm workers kidnapped in Pampo community, Asa local government area of Kwara state in an attack on Monday had been rescued.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, who said this in a statement on Friday afternoon, said that the rescued victims “are evidently traumatized but are in a stable frame of mind as they have been attended to by the Command’s Police doctors”.
He hinted that the “Command was flabbergasted when the news of the abduction of the victims broke, despite the tight security arrangements emplaced throughout the state”.
Okasanmi said the victims – Vet. Dr. Julius Owoeye, Akeem Ajadi, Bola Adedoye, all workers of Bafford/Morola’s farms at Elega Via Pampo Village Ilorin – were rescued on Thursday at 11:30pm by operatives attached to the command.
“The news of the kidnap prompted the Commissioner of Police to give a matching order to the Command’s anti kidnapping operatives which he personally supervised that eventually forced the kidnappers to abandon the victims when they could not withstand the intense pressure placed on them, hence they fled for their lives,” Okasanmi’s statement said.
He added that efforts are still ongoing to arrest the fleeing suspected kidnappers.
He furthered, “This is to send a signal to all criminals irrespective of nomenclature that Kwara State is never a safe haven for criminal elements, as such should relocate to other states.
“The CP wishes to appreciate all stakeholders that collaborated with the command in making this rescue mission a success.”
