Kidnapping: Operatives of Kiriji Heritage Defender comb Osun, Kwara, Kogi

Kidnapping: Kiriji Heritage Defender comb Osun, Kwara, Kogi forest

A local security outfit based in Osun State, the Kiriji Heritage Defender has combed the forest in Kwara and Kogi States to rescue kidnapped victims in the forest.

Besides, men of the security outfit have also embarked on 24 hours surveillance of all the major forest in Osun State as a way of waging serious war against kidnapping and other criminal acts being perpetrated by hoodlums in the forest.

The security outfit made up of local hunters and trained security experts are on the trail of kidnapped victims in the forests of Kwara and Kogi States with a view to rescue the victims and also chase the kidnappers away from the forest.

The Director General of the security outfit, Dr Ademola Ekundayo in an interview with our correspondent spoke on the activities of the security outfit since its inception a few years ago, disclosing that the security outfit had championed the rescue of many kidnapped victims in the recent time.

Specifically, Dr Ekundayo hinted that the Kiriji Heritage Defender was responsible for the rescue of abducted family members of one Chief Olagunju  who was kidnapped between Maya and Eruwa in Oyo State without payment of ransom.

He recalled that operatives of the Kiriji Heritage Defender traced the kidnappers of the wives of the late head of Ogboni fraternity, Oba Abdul and others to the forest in Ekiti State and rescued the victims without paying ransom.

Also, Ekundayo who is a traditional Chief in Ikefin, Boluwaduro Local Government Area of Osun State stated that the Federal Government and the security agencies in particular can make use of the Kiriji Heritage Defender to protect the people and prevent the alarming rate of abduction and other criminal acts in the country.

He said the results of the activities of the security outfit in the past and the antecedence of its men are credible.