Pandemonium broke out, yesterday, on Ijoko road, Ota in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State when some hoodlums killed three suspected kidnappers and set them ablaze.
The hoodlums also reportedly burnt the suspected kidnappers’ vehicle and rescued one Oluwole Elizabeth, 26, who had been kidnapped.
An eyewitness told Vanguard that nemesis caught up with the suspected kidnappers when their victim screamed and alerted the people who killed and burnt their corpses to ashes.
Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Muyiwa Adejobi, said the hoodlums had burnt the suspects to ashes before Policemen arrived the scene.
Adejobi, who also disclosed that the command had begun investigation into the incident, said the alleged victim was being interrogated.
According to him, Oluwole Elizabeth, 26, who resides at Ajegunle Street, Atan-Ota said she boarded a cab whose number plate was not known at about 7.40 a.m from Sona Breweries, Sango-Ota to Ewekoro, but found herself at Gas-line area in Ijoko.
According to Adejobi, “she screamed from the vehicle in which she was being taken to their den when she observed that she was in another place and the people in the area blocked the vehicle, beat the occupants, killed them and burnt them to ashes.
“We are going to use multifaceted approach, we want to know if there had been an interaction between the suspects and the victim. The jungle justice affected our case.”
