Ondo State Police Command has described the attack on the school bus of a private school by some hoodlums as a robbery and not kidnapping as being insinuated in some quarters.
The gunmen, around 6.45am on Thursday, hijacked the school bus in Oba Ile town, in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State and abducted one of the staff of the private school, Omolayo Ojo.
According to one of the eye witnesses ” the bandits attacked the school bus on motorcycles, forcing the driver to stop”.
The eye witness also said “they dragged the driver out, hijacked the bus and drove it to an unknown destination with Ojo inside it “.
A few hours after the incident, the abducted worker was, however, released unharmed, while the school bus had yet to be released as of the time of filing this report.
Speaking on the development, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Bolaji Salami, described the incident as a robbery.
Salami said, “It is a pure case of robbery. They (robbers) were not after the pupils. We will recover the bus from them. They may want to use it for another crime. We have told our men to be on the alert.”
