90-year-old Father of Popular Hotelier Kidnapped in Ekiti

The 90-year-old father of a popular hotelier in Ekiti State, Mr. Oluwole Adalumo, who owns SMJ Hotel in Ikole, Ekiti State, was on Wednesday night kidnapped in his house at Oke-Ijebu, in the same town. A family member and eyewitness, Bimbo Ajayi, told journalists in Ikole yesterday morning said the abductors came into the premises of the aged man around 8p.m. Relaying how the incident happened, Ajayi recounted that one of the kidnappers came down from a car parked in front of the house and approached the innocent man in his sitting room under the pretence that the victim’s son and hotelier, sent him to the old man. Confirming the incident, a police officer attached to the Divisional Police Station in Ikole Ekiti, who pleaded anonymity, said he could not give details on the matter until investigation had completed. He promised that the old man would be located and released from his abductors.