The Oyo State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of four suspects as well as the killing of two others during a rescue operation involving the sister of Chief Bayo Adelabu, a former Minister of Power, Busayo Adegoke John-Paul, and her two children in Ibadan.
The command also disclosed that firearms, including a pump-action gun, were recovered during the Saturday night operation, which lasted for several hours at the Ayegun area of Oluyole Local Government Area of the state.
The abductees were nabbed at a three-bedroom bungalow where they were hibernating.
Conducting journalists round the place in Ibadan, the state capital, on Sunday, the state Commissioner of Police, Oluwagbemiga Abimbola, said, “The police acted on a tip-off, which eventually resulted in the rescuing of the victims.”
It was further gathered that there was a shootout during the operation in which two of the suspects were killed in a midnight raid.
Aside from the four suspects that were arrested, other suspects escaped with bullet wounds.
Busayo Adegoke John-Paul, the younger sister of Adelabu, and her twin children were abducted by gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday, June 3, 2026 in Ibadan.
John-Paul, who is a biological sister to the former minister, Adelabu, was kidnapped alongside her 12-year-old twin sons at Elewura-Challenge in Ibadan South-West Local Government Area of the state.
The abduction was carried out by armed men who were said to have trailed the vehicle conveying the victims from their home before flagging them down at about 7:30 a.m at the scene of the incident.
