Kidnapped OAU Professor freed

The Osun State Police command has secured the release of Prof Yinka Adegbehingbe the abducted lecturer of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife.

Spokesperson of the force command in Osun state, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, has confirmed.

Professor Adegbehingbe was abducted by suspected gunmen at Apomu town along Ife-Ibadan Expressway on his way to Ife on Sunday May 5, 2019.

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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