Police have arrested seven persons who worked for an energy company,Xinxin energy,in Odogbolu, Ogun State for kidnapping and killing the father of their Chinese employer,Defa Song 65.
Reports say the seven suspects had in February,2020, conspired to abduct Defa Song.
The Suspects Adetayo Adeniran,Hammed Jabiri,Jayeola Olalekan,Animashaun Mustapa,Akeem Lawal,Moruf Rasaq and Yinka Jayeola were said to have abducted the old man while he was leaving his daughter’s factory and took him to an unknown destination where he died,
They disposed the corpse in a river and contacted his daughter demanding a N50million ransom for his release. The daughter immediately petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, who ordered operatives of the IRT,led by Abba Kyari,Deputy Commissioner of Police to launch a manhunt for the suspects and rescue the Chinese National.The Ogun state annex of the IRT were employed and a few weeks into their investigation,a vulcaniser working for the company was arrested.
Under interrogation , the 34 year old vulcaniser, a native of Odogbolu, Adelakan told the police that he and seven other persons working for the company including a security guard, made the plan to kidnap Mr Song.He said the man died in their custody a few days after he was kidnapped because he fell sick and was not given proper medication.He said they gave his body to some fishermen to help them dispose of it and went ahead to demand a ransom of N50MILLION from their boss.
Further narrating how he and others plotted the abduction, Adelakan said he was a primary school drop out married with two children and was employed in 2019 by Xinxin Energy Company in Odogbolu as a mechanic and a vulcaniser.
According to him, the company was paying him N60,000 monthly and he worked for three months before Mr Song came from China and sacked him because he bought a vehicle with the salary he was earning.
“Then one of the security men working for the company known as Israel called me and suggested that we should kidnap the man so that his daughter who owned the company would pay us a huge sum,I called my younger brother,Hamed Jabiri,who also worked in the company and informed him about the plan.He bought the idea and invited one Moses,who he said was a cultist,who had guns.This was in October 2019,we had a meeting and planned how we were going to kidnap the man.On 16th February, I was given a Corolla car to repair and I felt it was a good opportunity.
After repairing the car, I called my friends,Ade Tayo, Adeniran Dele,and Hammed and we got information from the security man that Mr Song had stepped out of his house,we took the man first to a bush close to my shop and later to the home of one Morufu while Adetayo started talking to the man”s daughter on phone.He demanded the sum of N50MILLION as ransom, but while we were still negotiating, I got a call from the people looking after the man that he was dead.
We then put the man”s corpse in a sack before putting it in a drum and I drove the vehicle to a river bank where some fishermen were called to take the drum away with the boat.Moses was the only one who followed them to where the drum was disposed of”
Another suspect,Hameed Jabiri a 29year old auto electrician from Lagos State said during the operation,Mr Song opened the mask he had on his face and recognised him.He told the security man who informed him about the job and he suggested that he should kill him after the ransom had been paid but”Unfortunately the man died before the ransom could be paid and we disposed off the body, but the Police came later and arrested us” he said.
It was gathered that the Police are still searching for the body of Mr Song.
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