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A staff of the kidnapped Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, Mr Wasiu Afonja, has given insight into what happened before gunmen abducted his principal at gun point.

Iyabo, a former Minister of State for Education was abducted by gunmen on Wednesday evening, at Igbogila area of Ogun State while returning from farm, according to her younger brother, Kola Popoola.

Also abducted along with Mrs Anisulowo is her security aide.

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the Command got a report that Anisulowo was kidnapped in the evening by armed men.

Adejobi added that the State commissioner of police, Abdulmajid Ali, had despatched team to the area, Ilaro, for the rescue operation and also assures the victim’s family that she would be rescued unhurt soon.

But on Thursday, Afonja who claimed to be driving the woman in a vehicle at the point of the abduction, said four man gang attacked them before whisking the former Minister of state for education away to an unknown location.

He said the kidnappers waylaid them about a kilometre from the farm with lightening speed, attacked them in a ‘commando-like’ fashion and also collected their phones before taken Anisulowo away.

“They ordered the three of us who were with Mama down. They collected our phones and beat us with machetes.

“The men spoke both English Yoruba languages. Mama kept asking them what they wanted but they didn’t answer.

“It was around evening we discovered the abandoned jeep around Iganokoto,” Afonja said.

Also speaking, the commander of the Vigilante Service in the area, Oluyemi Zachaeus, said they had information that Anisulowo was spotted hooded and was being conveyed on a bike.

According to Zachaeus, the information filtered from from Obalado, a community near the scene of kidnap.

Also, the NSDC official attached to Senator Anisulowo Damola Akinwande, said the gunmen did not prevent them looking into their faces as they ordered with hectoring voice to look away while also assaulted them with machetes.

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