{"id":129300,"date":"2023-12-09T18:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T18:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/09\/kidnappers-abduct-couple-in-ikorodu\/"},"modified":"2023-12-09T18:55:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T18:55:23","slug":"kidnappers-abduct-couple-in-ikorodu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/09\/kidnappers-abduct-couple-in-ikorodu\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnappers Abduct Couple In Ikorodu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-545984\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Kidnappers-487x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"274\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Kidnappers have abducted a couple in the Alfa area of Igbogbo in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the couple were stopped by gunmen who shot sporadically in the air to scare other road users and residents.<\/p>\n<p>A resident, Adisa Tobias said, \u201cThe community was thrown into panic when gunshots rented the air continuously. When the area became a bit calm, we went to investigate what had happened. We only discovered a child in the vehicle while the parents had been taken away. When we tried to ask the child about its parents, it pointed a hand to the bush, saying some people took them away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Explaining further, Adisa said the gunmen escaped to the swamp with the couple before the police arrived at the scene and began combing the wood and swamp if they could find the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Another resident who spoke to Vanguard anonymously said he was\u201d \u201cnot sure if the kidnappers made away with the couple through the swamp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Police Arrest Adamawa Teenager For Allegedly \u2018Raping\u2019 A Chicken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He opined that the kidnappers might have come with a vehicle parked at the other end of the road, where they quickly moved the couple in and drove off immediately.<\/p>\n<p>He added that if they had been in the woods, the police, probably, would have captured them, noting it was not long after the incident when the police arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>However, a Celestial Church of Christ member, who has a bathing pool by the side of the water and some residents of Igbe, were arrested by the police.<\/p>\n<p>At time of this report, efforts to get the Police Public Relations Officer of Lagos State, Benjamin Hundeyin to comment on the issue were abortive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-1035659071\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kidnappers have abducted a couple in the Alfa area of Igbogbo in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State. According to reports, the couple were stopped by gunmen who shot sporadically in the air to scare other road users and residents. A resident, Adisa Tobias said, \u201cThe community was thrown into panic when gunshots rented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kidnappers Abduct Couple In Ikorodu - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/09\/kidnappers-abduct-couple-in-ikorodu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kidnappers Abduct Couple In Ikorodu - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kidnappers have abducted a couple in the Alfa area of Igbogbo in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State. 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