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The Ondo State
Police Command, yesterday, arrested two civil servants with the State
Property and Development Corporation for allegedly demanding N480, 000
ransom from their boss in the same office.

They allegedly
ordered their boss to pay the ransom or have his children kidnapped.
Chintua Amajor-Onu, the state Commissioner of Police, who addressed
journalists over the incident, said the two suspects, Adedayo Olupona
and Idonuagbe Raymond, in collaboration with one Olumide Olorunnisola,
pretended to be kidnappers to demand the money from Anthony Akinrotoye.
“When Akinrotoye reported that a GSM phone number,

0816475934, was
used to send message to him demanding the sum of N480, 000 and that
they threatened to go to his school and kidnap two of his children if
he fails to give them the money, a team of detectives led by Sikiru
Lawal was dispatched to lay ambush against the hoodlums in a spot where
the victim was directed to place the money, and one Olorunnisola
Olumide appeared to receive the ransom and was arrested,” she said.

According to the
police boss, Mr Olorunnisola confessed during interrogation that he was
sent to collect the money by Messrs Raymond and Olupona. She said the
phone and the SIM card the suspects used had been recovered from them
as exhibits, adding that they would be charged to court soon. Mr
Olorunisola confessed to journalists that the team wanted to give the
money to a friend who had accommodation problems.

Meanwhile, the police boss also announced that a gang of armed
robbers which attacked and robbed a retired Deputy Superintendent of
Police, Adelakun Akinsuyi, of N500, 000 at Ore, had been arrested.
According to her, the gang followed the victim to his house from the
First Bank, Ore Branch, and attacked him.