Police hunt kidnappers of Ekiti varsity’s ex-DVC

The Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Adeniran Akinwale, said on Friday that his men were on the trails of the kidnappers of former Deputy Vice Chancellor of Ekiti State University, Prof. Femi Olaofe.

The retired university teacher was kidnapped from his residence at the State Housing Estate in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday along with his security guard.

Akinwale said, “We have started working on it. We are tracking the kidnappers. We have recovered the vehicle of the professor which they used to whisk him away from his house.

“We recovered it along Afao Road in the night. We are trailing the professor with the culprits. By the special grace of God, we are going to rescue the man unhurt.”

The CP, while relating how the former DVC was kidnapped, said, “The Professor was kidnapped quietly from his house. The Prof. lives alone with only the guard.

“It was one small girl who saw the vehicle that moved out from the gate with speed who alerted people on the day of the incident, which should be in the night. They moved out and before police would get wind of it, they had gone.”

The community of Are Ekiti, Olaofe’s hometown in Irepodun Ifelodun Local Government, Ekiti, made an appeal to security agencies on Thursday to ensure the safe rescue of the abducted professor.

The President, Are Ekiti Development Association, James Adebayo, who expressed sadness over the kidnapping of Olaofe, said that the community had visited the Commissioner of Police, over the incident to ensure his rescue.

Adebayo, in a statement by the association’s Public Relations Officer, Odunayo Ehinafe, on Thursday, urged the police to do everything possible to rescue the retired university teacher from the kidnappers.

Sources in the estate said that the retired university teacher returned from Lagos where he had gone to visit his children in Ado Ekiti on Monday.