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how a man abducted his son, alerted a family member and demanded a ransom from his extended family

A 45-year-old drummaker, Tanimowo Hunge, has been paraded by policemen from the Ogun

State Police Command Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, for allegedly abducting his 16-year-old son, John, and demanding N100,000 as ransom.

Hunge, a native of Maun, Ipokia Local Government, was paraded alongside some robbery and murder suspects by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Musa Daura, in Abeokuta on Wednesday.

Hunge, who wept profusely, blamed the devil for the crime. According to the CP, the suspect tricked his son who lives in Lagos with his brother in-law, Joseph Dosa, to come home. His father later abducted him and got in touch with Dosa that John had been kidnapped and the abductors demanded N100,000 ransom.

Dosa later told reporters that efforts to get the alleged abductors' telephone number from the boy's father proved abortive as he was said to have claimed that the abductors warned him not to release the telephone number to any other person.

The CP added, "When information go the police, they phoned the kidnappers and the money was made available by the police in order to attract the suspect. As the suspect surfaced for the collection of the money, he was arrested. Incidentally, the suspect is the biological father of the victim.

"We even tried to negotiate the ransom to N50,000 but the father refused, saying the kidnappers had refused any form of negotiation."

Amidst continuous sobs, Hunge, who confessed to the crime, claiming that tree felling had robbed him of the materials with which to make drums.

"It was the devil. I used to have money. It was hardship that pushed

me to this level and I only pray that God will save me from this problem," he lamented.

Also, another suspect, Abdullahi Adekunle, was paraded for allegedly killing one Musibau Olopade, who was caught having sex with his (Adekunle's wife) on their matrimonial bed.

Daura said Adekunle, a block moulder in Ilogbo Ota, stabbed Olopade in the back after he caught his wife, Funmilayo, and the young man having sex on their (Adekunles) matrimonial bed. A sober Adekunle explained that though he stabbed the late Olopade, who was unmarried, with the knife he used during the Eid-el-Kabir (Ileya), he did not know that the deceased would die.

The wife who had had a stillbirth for the suspect claimed that the deceased raped her. Funmilayo said, "I was expecting my husband in the morning; so, when he (Olopade) knocked, I thought it was my husband. I opened the door while I had only wrapper on. He pushed me to the bed and started. When my husband was knocking, he said I shouldn't open the door that it was not my husband. When my husband forced the door opened and saw him; they started fighting and I ran out of the building. As he (late Olopade) was trying to escape, my husband stabbed him in the back."