Gunmen kill police officer, abduct professor on Lagos-Ibadan expressway

A police officer was killed, one different injured, whereas a professor of political science was amongst others that have been kidnapped by suspected gunmen on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Suspected kidnappers in navy uniform had laid siege to the Dominica College space on the expressway on Friday evening and kidnapped an unspecified variety of passengers.

Professor Adigun Agbaje, on the College of Ibadan, was amongst these kidnapped.

A relation of the lecturer, who pleaded anonymity, mentioned that the abductors had contacted the household, demanding N50 million ransom.

Commenting, the Police Relations Officer in Oyo State, Adewale Osifeso, mentioned that operatives of the command hooked up to toll-gate received wind of the incident on Friday evening.

Mr Osifeso mentioned the command deployed anti-crime patrol operatives, tactical groups, police cell males and native hunters led by the Divisional Police Officer to rescue the abductees.

In line with him, in the course of the course of, an officer hooked up to the command paid the supreme worth with one different badly injured and presently responding to remedy

“To date, expended ammunition shells and 4 deserted automobiles have been retrieved on the scene,” Mr Osifeso mentioned, including that “the Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams, has ordered full-scale scientific and technological aided investigations”.

The police spokesman added that the “deputy commissioner in command of the State Legal Investigation Division was main the cost.”

Mr Osifeso, nonetheless, referred to as on residents inside and out of doors the world to inform the command at any time when they see any gunshot victims and different unusual occurrences.

(NAN)