{"id":173315,"date":"2025-08-10T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-rescue-three-kidnap-victims-in-ekiti"},"modified":"2025-08-10T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:29:00","slug":"police-rescue-three-kidnap-victims-in-ekiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-rescue-three-kidnap-victims-in-ekiti","title":{"rendered":"Police rescue three kidnap victims in Ekiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Ekiti State Police Command has confirmed the safe rescue of three people abducted from Oko Aso Farm, Ikere Ekiti.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the victims were kidnapped on Friday August 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to a police report, the victims, identified as drivers Kunle Aka Orojo and Deji Akinola, along with a motor boy, Ojo Oluwole, were freed without harm.<\/p>\n<p>The Divisional Police Officer of Ilupeju, Ikere Ekiti Division, disclosed that their release was the result of coordinated bush-combing operations by a combined security force, including the Rapid Response Squad, Anti-Kidnapping Squad, regular patrol teams, and other allied units.<\/p>\n<p>The rescued victims have been reunited with their families, while security operatives continue to track down the perpetrators behind the abduction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Ekiti State Police Command has confirmed the safe rescue of three people abducted from Oko Aso Farm, Ikere Ekiti. It was gathered that the victims were kidnapped on Friday August 1, 2025. According to a police report, the victims, identified as drivers Kunle Aka Orojo and Deji Akinola, along with a motor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-173315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police rescue three kidnap victims in Ekiti - Nigeria<\/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.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-rescue-three-kidnap-victims-in-ekiti\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police rescue three kidnap victims in Ekiti\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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