Mrs. Dorcas Ojo, a parent whose three grandchildren were among the pupils abducted by kidnappers in Ekiti State on January 29, has expressed appreciation for the arrest of some of the suspects by the police in the state.
On Friday evening, the police paraded eight suspected kidnappers who were arrested in various forests in Ekiti and neighboring states. They were apprehended for their alleged involvement in the abduction of five schoolchildren and their teachers, as well as the kidnapping of the Ekiti State All Progressives Congress State Chairman, Paul Omotoso, in 2023.
Speaking on Saturday, Ojo said, “We were informed that some of them have been arrested. God will lead the security agencies to arrest all of them involved in the kidnapping incident as well as all others in the state.
“The kidnappers operated in different locations in Ekiti State the day the schoolchildren and teachers were kidnapped. It is our expectation that all of them would be located by security agencies.
“Is it the traditional rulers who they killed and turned their children fatherless that we want to talk of? It is our prayers the criminals are all arrested because the torture, trauma, and punishment my grandchildren were subjected to by the kidnappers were indescribable.
“I hail the government and security agencies for what they have been doing on the matter. What I think is that whoever is arrested among them and confirmed a kidnapper should be killed.”