A 32-year-old man whose name was given by the police as Tunde Bello has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a 29-year-old lady in Ogun State.

This was contained in a statement signed on Friday by the state Police Public Relations Officer in Abeokuta, Abimbola Oyeyemi.

Oyeyemi said that the suspect allegedly held his victim hostage and then demanded ₦140,000 as ransom after raping her.

The statement read in part, “While she was going to her office on that day, she boarded a Hyundai car at about 5:00 am from Ogunrun road Mowe to Lagos. But on getting to Mowe junction, the driver of the car made a detour to Ibadan road and drove her to a bush along Lagos-Ibadan express road where he beat her mercilessly before forcefully having carnal knowledge of her. 

“After raping her, he held her hostage and asked her to call her relations to send the sum of ₦140,000 to him as ransom before he will let her go.

“She stated further that she had to call her brother who transferred ₦140,000 to her account; she also transferred to an account given to her by her abductor before she was released.”

According to Oyeyemi, upon the victim's report, the Divisional Police Officer of Mowe division, Marvis Jayeola, mobilised his detectives to go after the suspect with the view to getting him arrested.

“The intelligence and technical based investigation embarked upon by the detectives’ yielded positive results when the suspect who has been under surveillance was apprehended on the 16th of January 2021,” he added, noting that upon interrogation, the suspect confessed to committing the crime.

This was even as the state Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, has ordered the transfer of the suspect to the Anti-Kidnapping unit of the State Criminal Investigation and intelligence Department, SCIID, for further investigation and prosecution.