Nigerian Police: Kidnapped Chief Olu Falae freed without ransome

According to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Arase, "No ransom was paid and nobody has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of Chief Olu Falae." Chief Olu Falae explained his ordeal with the Fulani herdsmen who kidnapped him. For 4 days, he said he slept on the floor  and trekked several kilometers with his kidnappers.

Falae said this while narrating his ordeal in the hands of his abductors to the state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko who visited him after he was excorted  home by the Police. He said he had been kidnapped Fulani herdsmen  who invaded his farm on Monday.

According to him, after he was kidnapped he was made to trek with the herdsmen from his farm located at Ilado in Akure North to Owo in the same state.
Falae told the governor that for the four days he was with the Fulani herdsmen he slept on bare ground and trekked several kilometers throughout the night to get to the hideout of the kidnappers.
According to him, when his family offered to pay N2 million, his abductors said: “Is it Boko Haram that your family wants to give N2 million?”

A family member said that their father said that any time he was exhausted, one of the eight herdsmen, took turns to carery him on their backs until they got to Owo.

In an interview after he accompanied Chief Olu Falae home, IGP Arase said:

He vowed that the Police  will continue to battle insecurity.
According to him:

He said that no ransom was paid and that nobody has been arrested.