The Ondo state police command has arrested a landlord and two others for their alleged involvement in kidnapping and murder of two students of Adekunle Ajasin University (AAUA), Akungba-Akoko, in the state recently.
The state Commissioner of Police, CP Adebowqle Lawal, stated this in Akure, while speaking with newsmen on the recent achievements of the command.
Lawal added that the two students’ of AAUA were Abah John Friday, 25 and his friend, Okah Andrel Eloho, 19, (female).
The CP added that the landlord, Oladele Femi, confessed to have initiated the plot and he aidied in the concealment of the murder of the victims.
Adebowale said the arrest was made following a petition dated June 24, 2025, submitted by G.O. Omoedu & Co., Legal Practitioners, on behalf of one Mr Emmanuel Peter of Shagari Village, Akure, Ondo state.
The Police boss added that the petition was written over the abduction of Peter’s younger brother, Friday and his friend, Eloho, who went missing on June 20, 2025.
He said: “Forensic tracking led investigators to Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos, where an iPhone 14 Pro Max belonging to one of the victims was recovered from one Abdul Mohammed Mubarak, and he confessed to purchasing the phone from one Ojo Michael, whose arrest was subsequently effected in Aramoko-Ekiti, while a Lexus RX 350 vehicle belonging to the victims was also recovered at the point of arrest.