A cleric identified as Pastor Adeniyi Adisa, has been reportedly killed by security operatives who mistook him for a kidnapper.
According to The PUNCH, Adisa, who was also a chartered accountant was kidnapped on June 24 as he returned from a visit to a friend in the Yotomi area, Owode Egba area of the state.
The deceased, the General Manager of VGC Water in Lekki, Lagos, was held hostage by his abductors for several days before his body was discovered outside an Ogun State mortuary. On July 8, 2023, he was laid to rest at Ibadan.
The deceased’s younger brother, Musiliu Adisa, alleged that Adeniyi was murdered by some enraged teenagers in the Abule-Ori neighbourhood and some security officers who wrongly dubbed him a kidnapper.
It was learned that his kidnappers brought him to a thicket near a church they planned to attack because the ransom payment was delayed. They were reported to have abandoned him and moved to attack the church, where they killed the pastor during a mid-year night vigil before police and the state’s So-Safe Corps were summoned by church members.
According to Musiliu, the police and the corps pursuing the kidnappers encountered a weak Adisa in the same jungle and mistook him for one of the kidnappers, killing him.
Musiliu added, “My brother married two wives and had five children. His first wife, Temilade Adisa, who had three children, was married to him till death. He had two children with his second wife, Bukola, but they later divorced.
“My brother was killed by the police and others on July 1, 2023, at the Abule Ori bush close to a branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state. We are all traumatised and still in pain.”
“I received a phone call from him on Sunday morning and he informed me that he had been kidnapped, and we commenced a rescue mission and were prepared to pay a ransom to his abductors.
“We were on this until that Friday when his friend negotiated with the kidnappers and they agreed to collect the ransom at the Abule Ori bush. The lady took the money there around 9 pm but returned with the money that day because there was no commercial motorcycle to transport her into the bush.”
