From Segun Ayinde, Abeokuta
Unknown gunmen kidnapped a yet-to-be identified man near Delabo Junction along Sagamu/Ijebu-Ode Expressway corridor of Ogun State.
This was just as the police launched investigation into the incident in order to unravel the the mystery behind the kidnapping of the victim and rescue him.
The incident happened on Sunday, June 30.
Police Public Relations Officer, SP Omolola Odutola confirmed the incident in a statement in Abeokuta yesterday.
Odutola said upon receipt of the information, the Divisional Police Officer in Ikenne, responded to the incident as security measures had been beefed up in the axis to stop further attacks.
The Police PRO said a group of unknown armed robbery who came in an unregistered Venza Toyota car trailed the man to a rough part of the road and block the victim, shoot into the driver’s seat before whisking him away.
She added that during the attack the robbers also fired another driver of a Toyota Camry car with Lagos State registration number: AAA-04-JB, with a gun shot and inflict injuries on his left leg as he attempted U-turn
“Following information gathered, an abduction incident occurred near Delabo Junction along the Sagamu/Ijebu-Ode Expressway.
“A group of unknown armed individuals, without definite number, in their unregistered Venza Toyota car, trailed a man in his Toyota RAV4 Jeep , grey colour with license plate number – Lagos – AGL-16-JE, to a rough patch of the road, and blocked the victim’s vehicle.
“The criminals fired four rounds of ammunition believed to be from an AK-47 into the driver’s back tyre and another shot into the front tyre. Immediately, the hoodlums alighted from their vehicle, and forced the driver of the Toyota Rav 4 into their waiting Venza Jeep, and speed off towards Ijebu-Ode.
“During the incident, the hoodlums also shot at a driver , of a Toyota Camry car, black colour, whose name is yet unknown,with license plate number – Lagos – AAA-04-JB, inflicting injury on his left leg as he attempted a U-turn.
“Additionally, a bus driver traveling from Abuja to Lagos in the Ilisan area was stopped by the criminals, and smashed his bus windscreen and collected his mobile phone after warning him to be cautious as he was not their target,” she said.
Odutola informed that injured driver had been taken to Babcock University Teaching Hospital in Ilisan, for medical treatment and his currently responding to treatment.
She also disclosed that no lives were lost but the two vehicles damaged by the fleeing suspects have been recovered and towed to the police station.
