The Assistant Chief Surveyor in the Office of the Surveyor General of the Federation (OSGoF), Shamsideen Abayomi Alamu has been killed by kidnappers.
He was said to have been kidnapped along with his mother and a seven year old son at Abaji on his way from Iwo, Osun State where he had attended a wedding.

According to report, the body of Alamu is still missing days after he was killed.

Abayomi was abducted on October 3 near Yakwo Farms in Abaji.

Announcing the incident in a statement on Tuesday, Head of Press Office of the Surveyor General, Abu Michael said the three were in a Toyota Corolla with registration number RSH 661NY when the assailants emerged from the bush and shot at them.

Michael confirmed that Abayomi was murdered on October 6 while his mum and son regained freedom the next day.

“On receiving the news of his abduction, the Surveyor General of the Federation, Abudulganiyu Adebomehin and his management team swooped into action.

“The Office reliably gathered that he was killed on Thursday before the release of his mother and son on Friday through the intervention of family members, friends and other relatives.”

Michael added that security agencies were working towards recovering Abayomi’s remains and urged cirizens to provide useful information to the police.

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The OSGoF regrets the loss of the 2021 Head of Civil Service Award Winner and a “mapping maestro” of its Photogrammetry and Remote-Sensing Department.

Narrating the story to newsmen after she regained her freedom, the mother of the deceased, Alhaja Afusat M. Alamu, said her son (deceased) and grandson, Abdulhaq Alamu, were travelling from Iwo, Osun State, in a Toyota Corolla to Abuja when they ran into the gunmen who opened fire on the vehicle and took them away.

“After trekking for more than eight kilometres, we arrived at their camp, where they asked us to communicate with whoever could raise N50m for them, she explained.

“They maltreated me and my son until I was able to reach out to some of our relatives and my son’s colleagues in Abuja where N2,350,000 was raised for us.

“However, after receiving the money, my son was shot dead on Thursday after the gunmen claimed that he attempted to fight them.

“As we were walking inside the bush when we were released, the kidnappers claimed that my son was trying to fight them and that was why they shot him and allowed me and my grandson to go.

“Later, my son’s friends and some relatives mobilised to the scene where the kidnappers collected the ransom to retrieve my son’s corpse, but they did not find the corpse.

“So I have reported the incident at the Abaji police station because that Tuesday night we were abducted, it was the police from Abaji who came and towed my son’s vehicle to their station,”she narrated

Abayomi, an indigene of Iwo in Osun State, was recruited into the Federal Civil Service on December 9, 2013.