“It will be recalled that on July 1st, our officers responding to distress call at Abule-Ori community in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state moved in and were able to rescue seven church members earlier kidnapped. That same night, the Corps decided to trail the kidnappers and it was during the operation when the officers engaged in a shootout with the kidnappers that the unintended happened.

It was really an unfortunate situation, a very sad one that none of us is happy about. After this incident, So Safe issued a release to the members of the public that seven kidnapped church members were rescued while one of the kidnappers was gunned down with others escaping with bullet wounds.

We, however, later got to know in the cause of our investigation that the suspect killed was not a kidnapper but Pastor Saheeb Adeniyi Adisa of Oke Oluokun, Ibadan, Oyo State who had earlier been kidnapped by the kidnappers and probably brought along to be freed after collecting the ransom before going for their next operation.”

According to him, the Ogun State Police Command has investigated the case and it has been discovered that Adisa was a kidnapped victim too and he was never a kidnapper. He mentioned that the So-Safe Corps is liaising with the Commissioner of Police, CP Alamutu Abiodun, to provide some compensation to support the children of the deceased within the first week of November.

Speaking on behalf of the family during the press briefing, Akande, who led the family delegation, said that though the death of Adisa was painful, it is clear that he was never a kidnapper as initially portrayed.