The victims a girl Tobiloba Aleshiloye, 12, and an eight-year-old boy, Yussuf Kudus were abducted on September 15, 2017.
The suspect allegedly took the kids to an unknown place and put a call across to their parents asking for N150,000 per child.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi,confirming the incident said the distraught parents reported the case to the police at the Agbara division and detectives were detailed to be on the trail of the kidnapper.
“Technical investigation” was conducted on the suspect’s whereabouts and the hideout was located in a hotel in the Ojo area of Ibadan.
“The two children have been reunited with their parents,” Oyeyemi added.
Meanwhile the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the Anti-kidnapping/Cultism unit of the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
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