Hoodlums arrested for extorting student of N150,000 in Osun

Operatives of the Osun State Police Command have arrested two hoodlums for extorting a student, Yusuf Joseph, of N150,000.

The suspects, Sodeeq Adegoke, 24, and Abubakar Ajibola, 24, were paraded at the Osun Police Command headquarters in Osogbo, yesterday.

One of the hoodlums, Adegoke confessed to have ambushed the student on the road and led him to a deserted area inside the Government Reservation Area in the state capital around 11 am last Friday.

Adegoke said, “We stopped his motorcycle and jumped on it, forced him to a deserted area in the GRA, where we forced him to transfer N150,000 into Ajibola’s account number. We already spent N85,000 on the money.