Kidnap Kingpin who escaped in Oyo State nabbed in Ogun

Ogun State Police command has apprehended a notorious kidnap kingpin Usman Hassan who escaped from Oyo State after killing one of their victims.

A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer ABIMBOLA OYEYEMI said the suspect  whose accomplices had earlier been arrested in Oyo State after  kidnapping a farm owner at Solalu village and subsequently killed the victim despite collecting ransome ran to Ogun State to hibernate.

Oyeyemi explained that Usman while hibernating in the state started recruiting other Fulani men to form another kidnap gang in Ogun State before luck  ran out him when detectives of Ogun State police Command got information about his activity from those Fulanis he had tried to recruit into his kidnap team.

His hideout in Imala area was stormed by the detectives and he was promptly arrested.

On interrogation, he confessed that he conspired with his biological brother one Tahiru Usman and others to kidnap their victim in Akinyele area of Ibadan and that they decided to kill the man after collecting ransome because the man  can identify them.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of police, CP Edward A. Ajogun has directed that the suspect be transferred to the Anti-kidnapping Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for onward transfer to Oyo State Command where he will be prosecuted.