Adedayo Adewole, son of the former Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole recounted his ordeals after he was released within 24 hours in kidnapper’s den.

Speaking to journalists at the Oyo State Police Command headquarter in Eleyele, Ibadan on Thursday, the young lad revealed that no ransom was paid for his release.

Adedayo was reported to have been picked up by unknown gunmen on Tuesday at 5:30pm on his way to his farm at Iroko, a community in Akinyele Local Government Area, Oyo State.

His release came after the Oyo State Police Commissioner, Shina Olukolu and Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone II with joint forces from Ondo and Osun States and a backup from the Garrison Commander of the 2 Division of Nigerian Army, Ibadan who patrolled the perimeter of the forest which the captors were hindered the criminals from operating smoothly.

Adedayo recounts, the incident happened around 5:30 p.m. I was just about to get out of the farm when a couple of gunmen, about six of them came; the driver panicked, and I jumped out of the car. I ran and they chased me until they caught me.

“I eventually took them to the (farm) office and gave them whatever money we had in the office. They took me and drove away in the car, and went into the bush. Around 6:30 to 7p.m, we were patrolled all over until the following morning around 8 o’clock.

“When they found out they could not get anything, they let me go around 7:36 p.m. I found my way and got into a village, where I was directed to the expressway. I met a nice okada man who took me back to Iroko village. There, somebody gave me his phone so that I could call daddy to come and pick me up.

“The car was taken to somewhere else as a diversion, and we were taken into the forest. They allowed me to go without any ransom.”

The Oyo State CP however said, were not able to pin him to being this person or that person. They were believing he was either the son of a senior police officer or a senior military officer. They concluded that was why senior police officers and senior army officers were patrolling the area, searching for him and looking everywhere.

“So, they could not really do what they intended doing. They were believing the intensity of the rescue operation was too much and they let him go because it would be a bad market for them, and really he was a bad market for them.”

Adedayo who is a graduate of medical biochemistry has been reunited with his family.