Ondo Amotekun arrests suspected ritualist, kidnapper who hypnotised teenager from Lagos

Men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, Amotekun, have arrested a 65-year-old herbalist, Akorede Lawal in Ore, Odigbo Local Government Area of the state for abducting an 18- year old boy, Segun Thomas, in Mushin, Lagos State.

Akorede who is suspected to be ritualist or kidnapper, was apprehended in Ore after hypnotising the teenage boy and took him from Lagos to Ondo state for no reason.

According to the young boy who explained that he was on his way to the training workshop when the suspect approached and gave him his bag, saying “that was the last thing I realised before i started following him.

He explained that Akorede started interrogating him while they were coming to about his family and said ” I told him my father is living abroad and asked me to call to him and request for money.

“I regained my memory after the driver of the bus collected the man’s bag from me while asking for transport fare. I wondered how I got to Ore when the people told me I am.in Ondo state.

“There was an argument between the man and the driver and I remember following him to the park after giving me his bag while people raised alarm and he was arrested by these Amotekun”

While denying the allegation, the suspect, Akorede, Lawal who said he was a herbalist, said he was on his way to Akure to meet his family, and only asked the boy to help him carry his bag and said the boy willingly followed him to Ondo state on his volition.

Confirming the arrest, the State Amotekun Corps Commander, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, said “Men of our Intelligent unit posted around motor parks in Ore noticed some funny behaviour between the young man and the suspect.

“On questioning, they found out that the boy did not know how he gets to Ore. As far as the boy is concerned, he thought he was in Lagos.

“On interrogation, we realised that he has debriefed the boy and found out that his father lives abroad and asked the boy to call his father to send money while being hypnotised.

“He was brought to the Amotekun headquarter in Akure, and we got a clue that his mother lives in Lagos and placed a call to her and came down to Ondo state.”

The mother of the victim, a 42-year-old food vendor, Mrs Rashidat Babatunde who lives with her four children in Mushin, Lagos State said, “I got a call at about 3 pm from somebody and said I should come to Amotekun office in Akure.

“I told the person that I don’t know what they call Amotekun and that and I have not visited Akure before but when he told me my son who left home at about 9 am was in Akure, I had to rush down here.

“I want to appreciate these men from Ondo Amotekun and the state government for setting up such an agency that is reliable and dependable.”

Items found in the bag of the suspect included; two daggers, a Calabash with black soap, an animal horn, charms, six Mobile phones, a diary with telephone numbers and a radio.

Adeleye however, said that the suspect will soon be charged to court.

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