by Adeola Balogun

 

A woman has been freed by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command after spending three years in captivity following her abduction by a man.

The kidnapper, identified as Idowu Ajibola, 37, was apprehended after police operatives received reports that he had abducted the woman and held her against her will for 3 years.

The victim, Modupe Brown, 30, was reportedly kidnapped by Ajibola when she was in her final year of study at the  Lagos State university (LASU) where she was a student of Business Administration.

Vanguard reports:

On the 9th of September, operatives from the Area ‘E’ Command, following an intelligence report, stormed Sagamu, Ogun State, and rescued the victim.

They arrested one Ebun Idowu, the alleged abductor’s mother, who watched over the victim, while the abductor was arrested at Idumota area of Lagos.

Ozuani, who also paraded the suspects, said: “The suspect cunningly camped the victim at three different locations during the period of incarceration: Osogbo in Ogun State, for six months; Bariga in Lagos, for another six months, while they spent over two years in Sagamu, Ogun State.

“The suspect, who hails from Abeokuta, Ogun State, is a primary school drop-out.

“He forcefully impregnated the victim, who had a baby girl with deformities because of the abductor’s refusal to have the baby immunised against polio virus.”

Meanwhile Ajibola insisted when interrogated that the victim was his lover and their cohabitation was mutual while Miss Brown said that she had been hypnotized by her abductor.

When Vanguard interviewed Ajibola, he described Brown as his lover and that they had been cohabiting for three years.

He said: “She told me she wanted to run away with me because her parents do not want her to get married to a man of her choice. I told her that I don’t have money but she said I shouldn’t worry, that she will look for a way out.

“Some few days later she paid N200,000 into my account and we travelled to Osun State. Because of the nature of my job, we were moving from one place to the other. I am surprised that the police came to my house and arrested me.”

However, Brown insisted that she was hypnotised and abducted by Ajibola in 2010. She said that before her abduction, she has never met Ajibola.

She further added that Ajibola accosted her when she was about to pay her school fees.

Brown said: “I lost consciousness the moment he touched me and he asked me to go back to my house and bring all my belongings to his house.

“That was how we started living as husband and wife. Any time I make attempts to go, something will tell me not to go and in the process he impregnated me.

“He moved me from place to place and prevented me from immunizing my child. I regained consciousness recently and I picked up a phone and called my mother, who brought in the police.”