Kidnappers Abduct TASUED Official, FUNAAB Student, Two Others

Suspected kidnappers have abducted the Deputy Director of Information and Communication Technology, Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijebu-Ode, Mrs. Lateefat Abimbola, and a student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Toyinbo Olayinka, and two others.

Abimbola was said to have been kidnapped in Ijebu-Ode on Thursday, while Olayinka, a 400-level student of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management, FUNAAB, was abducted on Saturday from a private farm in Abule-Itoko on the Abeokuta-Ibadan Road in the Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State.

Olayinka was said to have been kidnapped along with the owner of the farm and a Togolese girl.

The Head, Directorate of Public Relations, FUNAAB, Kola Adepoju, said Olayinka was abducted from where he had lived for three years as a self-sponsored indigent student.

Adepoju said in a statement, “According to the friend of the abducted student and a nursing mother, who witnessed his abduction, he was kidnapped by gunmen on a private farm in Abule Itoko, a village in the Odeda Local Government Area, where he has been working and living for the past three years as a self-sponsored indigent student.

“The management of the university has reported the abduction at the Ogun State Police Command headquarters, Eleweeran, and it is working earnestly with the command to ensure the safety and release of the kidnapped student.”