Police rescue three kidnapped farm managers in Kwara

The Kwara State Police Command has rescued three farm managers abducted in the state on Sunday.

The victims: Dr. Julius Owoeye, Akeem Ajadi and Bola Adedoye, workers at Bafford/Morola’s Farms at Elega via Pampo in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State, were rescued on Thursday.

Police spokesman, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, said in a statement on Friday in Ilorin that the State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Bagega, led the rescue team.

Okasanmi said: “The command was flabbergasted when the news of the abduction of the victims broke on March 22, in spite of the tight security arrangements emplaced throughout the state.

“This prompted the Commissioner of Police to give a marching 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. They fled for their lives.

“Effort is still on-going to arrest the fleeing suspects.

“The victims are evidently traumatised but are in stable frame of minds and are being attended to by the Command’s doctors.

“The CP had earlier made a commitment to rescue the victims and this has been achieved.”

Okasanmi added that CP Bagega advised all criminals irrespective of nomenclature to relocate from Kwara State, adding that it was not a safe place for criminals.

Bagega also thanked all stakeholders that collaborated with the Command in making the rescue mission a success.