Reports say that the travellers were kidnapped by gunmen between Sagamu Area Command of the Nigeria Police and Ilisan township. One of the victims was shot in the knee but managed to escape.
According to security sources, the kidnapping was an insider’s job, as all the victims who are foreign nationals arrived in the country the same day the incident occurred, adding that they were probably trailed to the location where the kidnapping took place.
Governor Abiodun, however, in a statement , said the state will not be allowed to become a den for kidnappers, and promised that the perpetrators would be smoked out and punished.
Abiodun said all security agencies, including the police, the army, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps ,NSCDC, Amotekun, So Safe Corps and local hunters were on the trail of the kidnappers with arrays of security gadgets, including drones.
He assured the people that their security was guaranteed as the present administration had committed so much to secure the state.