A Corp Member who currently serves at a private school in Osogbo, John Olowosaye has narrated how Olalekan Oyeyemi also known as Emir, an appointee of Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, helped him to kidnap and torture some individuals over a failed transaction.
Olowosaye was paraded at the Police headquarters on Friday by the Public Relations Officer of Osun Police Command, SP Yemisi Opalola.
He was arrested in connection with the abduction that happened 2023 in Ede.
While narrating his ordeal, Olowosaye explained that he didn’t know who Emir was and wasn’t an indigene of the State.
He said, “I and some guys had a transaction, they were supposed to help me convert the dollar I sent to them to Naira, which will be the sum of 4.8m. After converting it, they refused to pay the money and someone told me that they know of a person (Emir) that could help me collect it. So I contacted Emir.
“After a month of not receiving any feedback from those guys, I came to Osun State to come meet them, that was why I contacted Emir to help me collect the money.
“Emir and his guys went to Ede to where those guys were, on getting there, those guys were with some set of people, upon superiority, they handed over the guys to Emir. Emir brought those guys back to Osogbo and kept them for three days.
“He tortured them and they explained why they haven’t sent the money. So, some people assured Emir, that they would pay, so they were released. I don’t even know about the whole scenario.
“They said they would be paying it little by little, by the 30th of September 2023, they came and said they wanted to pay up, the whole sum was 4.8m, so they paid 1m first. After a week, they paid 1.050m, in total, they have paid 2.6m to Emir’s account. Emir only paid me 1m out of the money sent to his account.
“After the whole scenario last year, I texted the guys to remind them of my outstanding payment, there was no response from Emir or those guys.
“I just got deployed to Osun State for my service year, I started disturbing those guys for my payment but they sent cutlass to me through WhatsApp chat and told me to come to Ibadan to receive the payment, but they didn’t show up.
“When I got back to Osogbo, I went to the police station to file petition against those guys. I was looking for those guys and they were looking for me as well, so they told me to come to a place and I went, that was where the police arrested me”, he narrated.
Speaking on the case, Opalola revealed that the abduction occured in August 2023 and that a “sum of N2.6m was sent to the account of Emir as ransom.”
The police however did not talk about arrest of Emir.
