Two arrested for abducting 15-year- old female student

The Vigilance Service of Ogun State has
arrested two suspects -Gbenga Adesanya
and Sodiq Osanyintola- for allegedly
abducting a 15-year-old female secondary
school student, Kehinde Owoniko, in
Abeokuta, the state capital.
The VSO also claimed that the third
suspect, Oye Atunbi, escaped arrest and
is currently on the run. One shot gun and
11 fake identity cards were allegedly
recovered from the suspects.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the suspects
allegedly abducted Owoniko, a senior
secondary school 1 student of Egba High
School, Asero, Abeokuta, at gun point
when she went to ease herself in the
bush behind the school premises.
The suspects also allegedly made
incisions on the victim’s wrist and chest
with a razor blade, before applying some
“black powder” on the injury, in an
attempt to hypnotise her.
Owoniko was later bundled into a car
conveying two other victims earlier
abducted by the gang. Before driving the
victims away to an unknown destination,
the suspects were said to have taken the
telephone numbers of their parents.
Although, the suspects allegedly
contacted the parents of the two other
victims, Owoniko’s mother’s was said to
be unreachable.
The parents of the two other victims
earlier abducted were said to have
contacted the alleged abductors and paid
an unspecified amount of money as
ransom to secure the release of their
children as well as Owoniko.
Upon their release, Owoniko allegedly
found her way home around 9pm and
narrated her ordeal to her already
worried parents.
The next day, Owoniko’s family lodged a
complaint with the VSO whose operatives
later stormed the hideout of the
hoodlums and arrested the two suspects.
Confirming the development, VSO Public
Relations Officer, Soji Gamzallo, said, “The
girl was tortured. A blade was used to
make incision on her wrist and chest and
black powder was rubbed into the
wounds. A report was later made by the
father of the victim at our office.
“The victim was eventually brought today
and she confirmed the report of her
parents.”
The VSO spokesman added that after its
investigation, the VSO had transferred the
suspects to the police in the state for
prosecution.
Recalling her ordeal, Owoniko said, “I
went to the bush to relieve myself during
the break time in the school. All of a
sudden, two armed men grabbed me and
ordered me to cooperate.
“They later forced incision on my arm and
chest, rubbed it with black power, before
transferring me into a waiting car, where I
found two other victims. They asked for
our parents’ telephone numbers and took
off to another hideout.
“At the hideout, they called my mother’s
telephone but it was not available, while
the parents of other victims were
contacted.
The parents of those ones later came and
paid them some amount. They included
me and we were later released.”