Adekunle Ajisebutu, the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, said in Ibadan on Monday that the command was working hard to rescue kidnapped Rev. Biodun Ogunbeku alive from his abductors.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ogunbekun, a reverend of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Akobo-Ojurin, Diocese of Agodi, Ibadan, was kidnapped on Thursday by five gunmen.
He was kidnapped at his farm at Kufi area, along Olounda-Aba Road in Ibadan at about 7pm.
Ajisebutu, who declined to state whether ransom was demanded by the abductors, however, said the police were on top of the situation.
The PPRO said that the command was doing what it could to locate the hideout of the suspects.
He said that investigations were ongoing and that the Commissioner of Police would brief newsmen as soon as investigations were completed.
Rt. Rev. Amos Ajiboye, the Diocesan Bishop of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Diocese of Agodi, Ibadan, had said that the kidnappers were yet to contact the Church or the family of the victim.
Worship Police intensifying efforts to rescue kidnapped Reverend alive – PPRO
