It was gathered that some unknown gunmen, numbering about seven on Thursday evening, stormed Elerinjare, a community in the Ifelodun local government area of the state, and whisked away the woman identified as Blessing Ajiboye.

Two other persons assisting the pastor’s wife at her shop were also kidnapped during the attack. Reports, however, claimed that the two shop assistants later regained freedom.

Narrating the awful event, the victim’s husband, Pastor Johnson Olalekan Ajiboye, told journalists that the gunmen, who included two women, attacked the ever-busy shop from a nearby bush beside the Community Primary School located in the area.

Pastor Ajiboye said that he stepped out of the shop to pick up an item from their residence situated nearby the shop when he heard the gunshots.

He said that shouts from his wife made him call out from the balcony of the house, only for the hoodlums to shoot at the windows and doors of his house, making it difficult for him to come out to do anything to help.

“The gunmen did not touch or cart away any money. They only grabbed my 34-year-old wife, Blessing Ajiboye, after removing the baby tied to her back. They dropped the baby on the ground”, the cleric said.

We learnt that a bullet hit one person sitting near the shop during the attack. The individual is reportedly receiving medical treatment at a nearby private hospital as of reporting time.

The two other shop assistants that were earlier declared missing, along with the wife of the pastor, were reportedly found after the pandemonium that ensued.

The traditional ruler of the Elerinjare community, Oba Tajudeen Olaitan, was said to have held a meeting with leaders of Fulani living in the community while members of the local vigilante were already on the ground to complement the effort of the men of the anti-kidnap squad of the state Police command to comb the area for possible arrest of the suspected kidnappers.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ajayi Okasanmi, said that he was yet to get details of the incident.