Fayose Petitions IG Arase As Three More Women Get Abducted By Unknown Gunmen
Ekiti State Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose
The Governor of Ekiti state Ayodele Fayose has petitioned the Inspector General of Police Solomon Arase over the kidnap of three unidentified women in Ekiti State this Friday afternoon by unknown gunmen.
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It was reported in the local media that 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.
Further reports confirmed that the husbands and the children were later freed by their captors their captors while the women were driven away in the car after collecting the phones and other valuables from the victims.
Passersby and indigenes, we gathered, met the men and their children wailing profusely and calling for help until some sympathisers came to their aid.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Alberto Adeyemi, has confirmed the incident. According to him: “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.”
The whereabouts of the women remained unknown while contact had not been established with the families as at the time of filing this report.
It should be recalled that 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, in his petition has called for the IG’s intervention to stem the spate of kidnappings that had hit the state in the last few weeks.
In a May 15 letter, signed by the governor, he requested the IG’s special intervention in removing the fear the people of the state were experiencing following numerous cases of abductions of innocent people.
According to a statement in Ado-Ekiti this afternoon by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, the governor promised the people that the situation would soon be put under control.
The letter read in part: “It is with great concern that I am appealing to you to help in our quest for a lasting solution to the spate of kidnappings and abductions in our dear state. The development has created fear in the minds of our people and no meaningful development can take place under such atmosphere.
“As a responsible government, we are taking all necessary steps to curtail and put an end to these dastardly acts, and we believe a special attention from your office on the matter to our state, would no doubt, lead to finding a quick solution to the problem.”
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