The Senior lecturer with the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife Prof Olayinka Adegbehingbe kidnapped while returning from Lagos to Ile-Ife has been released.
The professor and his wife, Bernice, were abducted on the Ibadan-Ife Road, Osun State.
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They were returning from Lagos to Ile-Ife when they were stopped by unknown gunmen at Asejire, a community on the highway.
The Osun State Police Command confirmed the abduction but said the don’s wife was released by the abductors.
The police also denied reports of bandits’ attacks on travellers on the Ife-Ilesa road on Sunday evening.
A senior officer at the state police command, who preferred anonymity, said the kidnap of the OAU lecturer was mistaken for the alleged bandits’ attacks.
The source said Mrs Adegbehingbe was released before her husband was whisked away by the gunmen.
Mrs Adegbehingbe is the Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sciences.
A story went viral on the social media on Sunday that some herdsmen alighted from a truck, shot into the air and dispossessed travellers of their valuables ran into the bush.
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Mrs Adegbehingbe was said to have slumped as her husband was being taken away.
She is said to be receiving treatment for shock at an undisclosed hospital. He younger brother, Kola Olabojede, pleaded with reporters and sympathisers to allow her to rest, saying she was yet to recover from the shock. The gunmen have not established contact with Adegbehingbe.
Though the police are yet to confirm whether any ransom was paid for his release, the Public Relations Officer of the Institution, Abiodun Olarewaju confirmed that the lecturer was on the way to the campus in the company of security agencies, to be reunited with his family.
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