GOOD NEWS: Kidnapped Female Industrialist Freed In Ondo

After spending about 14 days at the kidnappers’ den, an Ilesa-based frontline industrialist, Dr. (Mrs.) Olayinka Obaleye, popularly known as Yinka Oba, was finally released on December 6, 2013, Friday.

Mrs. Yinka Obaleye, the founder of Yinka Oba Foams, was abducted in front of her factory, located at Ilo, Ijebu-Jesa road in Osun State, on November 19, 2013, by yet-to-be identified gang of armed men. The kidnappers shot dead Mr. Alhaji Kamarudeen Adebisi, the driver of the businesswoman. The deceased had since been buried according to Islamic rites.

The abductors of a renowned industrialist have allegedly demanded N700million in ransom, however, family sources do not confirm, whether they actually paid it or not, before the victim regained her freedom.

Mrs. Yinka Obaleye was found at Akoko in Ondo state where she was abandoned along with her car in a nearby bush in the town, in the early hours of December 6, 2013, Friday. The woman walked her way to a nearby police station where she reported herself before the Ondo Police Command contacted its counterpart in Osun on the development.

The victim was very weak to narrate her ordeal in the hands of her abductors to the security operatives. She was immediately rushed to an undisclosed hospital in Ilesa, Osun State for medical attention. As at the time she was abducted, the victim had malaria and was said to be a diabetic patient.

The development sparked wide jubilation in Ilesa, the country home of Yinka Oba as people were sighted expressing joy and discussing the matter in happy tones.

Osun State Police Commissioner, Mrs. Dorothy Gimba, confirmed the release of the industrialist by her abductors through the Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Folasade Odoro.

The Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, had deployed crack team of detectives from the Force Headquarters, in Abuja to fish out the suspected abductors of Yinka Oba and secure her freedom.

The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 11, David Olufemi Omojola, gave this hint the previous day, saying that the state command would soon bring the abductors to book.