Osun NURTW Chairman Kidnapped, Police Arrests Eight Suspects
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The police command in Osun on Sunday said it had arrested eight suspects
in connection with the kidnapping of the branch chairman of the National Union
of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Apomu, Ali Kazeem, aka Kekere Kazuma.
Apomu is located in the Isokan local government area of Osun.
According to police spokesman SP Yemisi Opalola, Mr Kazeem was
allegedly abducted on Saturday and taken into a bush after he was trailed from
his motor park to Oke-Afa Area in Apomu.
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“Based on the information,
the area commander of Ikire promptly mobilized the combined team of vigilante
and police detectives from Ikire area command to the scene,” a police statement
said.
It added, “The team, however, discovered that the victim was
traced from his motor park to Oke Afa Area, Apomu, where he was forcefully
stopped, pulled out from his Toyota Corolla ash color with registration number,
APM 203 AA, machete and taken away by the assailant(s).”
Ms Opalola
added that photographs were taken at the scene and that the command had mobilized a police tactical team, local hunters and locals to comb the
surrounding bush to rescue the victim.
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She pointed out that the
police could not say whether the NURTW leader was dead or alive.
She, however, said police commissioner Olawale Olokode had assured
the public that the kidnappers would be arrested and made to face justice.
(NAN)
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