Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has ordered security personnel to launch a massive manhunt for the perpetrators of Sunday’s kidnapping along the Sagamu-Ijebu Ode Expressway.
Many persons were reportedly kidnapped near the Sagamu Area Command and Ilishan City Gate on the ever-busy freeway by gunmen who ambushed them around 9 p.m.
Security sources said the kidnapping was an insider’s job as all the victims were foreign nationals who arrived the country the same day the incident occurred, adding that they were probably trailed to the location where the kidnapping took place.
Governor Abiodun, in a statement on Tuesday, said Ogun State will not be allowed to become a den for kidnappers, even as he promised that the perpetrators would be smoked out and punished.
The governor said all the security agencies, including the police, army, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC), Amotekun, So Safe Corps and local hunters are on the trail of the kidnappers with arrays of security gadgets, including drones.
He assured the people that their security is guaranteed as the present administration has committed so much to secure the state.
