TRAVELERS LAMENT OVER INCESSANT ATTACKS OF KIDNAPPERS ON OGUN HIGHWAYS
Several travelers and residents in some parts of Ogun State have lamented over the rate at which kidnappers waylay and attack drivers, road users, and take them into custody along the major highways in the State.
It was reported that the federal roads like Lagos-Ibadan highway, Lagos-Abeokuta expressway and Lafenwa-Ayetoro-Imeko road are becoming dreadful to road users.
In Ogun State, millions of Naira has been paid in ransom to kidnappers, whose stock-in-trade is to pick up unsuspecting travelers in exchange for ransom.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State police command has reiterated that Ogun will never be a place of hibernation for kidnappers and other criminals, stressing that they will be flushed out anywhere they are.
The Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun who heard about a recent incident of kidnapping said, “Let me state in clear terms that no part of Ogun State is a safe haven for criminals and criminality in whatever form. Whether on the Lagos-Ibadan, Sagamu-Benin-Ore, Abeokuta-Sango-Lagos expressways or even our township roads or interstate roads, we shall smoke them out. We shall arrest them and hand them over to face justice”.
