Arrested Kidnappers Confess to Tracking Former Minister’s Sister and Her Twin Sons Before Daylight Ambush

The inner workings of a sophisticated criminal network have been laid bare after police arrested the mastermind and gang members responsible for the high-profile kidnapping of a former minister’s sister and her young twins in Ibadan.

The victims, Mrs. Olaide Busayo Adegoke John-Paul the younger sister of former Minister of Power Chief Adebayo Adelabu and her 12-year-old twin sons, Peter and Paul, were snatched in the early morning hours in the busy Challenge area of Ibadan. The mother was simply driving her boys to school when armed men intercepted her vehicle and dragged the family off into captivity.

What followed was a massive, clock-ticking manhunt ordered by the Inspector-General of Police. Operatives from the Force Intelligence Department and local tactical units tracked digital footprints and local intelligence for three days. The breakthrough came with the arrest of a notorious suspect on the police watchlist known as “Oloro,” whose confession blew the case wide open and led police straight to the gang’s secret base in Ayegun North.

When heavily armed police teams stormed the hideout under the cover of darkness, the gang’s lookout opened fire in a desperate bid to escape. In the fierce gun battle that followed, the lookout and another gang member were shot dead, allowing teams to rescue the mother and her twins completely unharmed.

Now in handcuffs, the surviving suspects have started opening up about the chilling amount of planning that went into the crime. According to police briefings, this was not a random attack. The gang confessed that they had been running surveillance on the family for weeks, mapping out their exact daily movements, identifying the cars they drove, tracking their lifestyle, and even memorizing the schedule of the school the twins attended.

“These suspects didn’t just watch from afar,” law enforcement officials revealed. “Our ongoing investigations show they went as far as trying to bribe and recruit an insider working close to the household to feed them secret details about the family’s movements.”

At the command headquarters, police paraded four surviving suspects associated with the ring and displayed a mini-arsenal recovered from the house, including three pump-action rifles, live ammunition, specialized criminal charms, face masks, and the grey Toyota Corolla used to transport the victims.

While the rescued mother and her sons are currently recovering from the psychological trauma of their 84-hour ordeal, security forces have intensified their search in the surrounding forests. With several gang members believed to have escaped the shootout with severe gunshot wounds, authorities are urging local hospitals and residents to instantly report anyone seeking treatment for suspicious injuries.