Ekiti state's insecurity level is on the rise as unknown gunmen yesterday waylaid and kidnapped 3 women with one of their husbands and children in broad daylight along Igbole-Osi Road in Ido/Osi Local Government Area of the state.  

The victims were said to be travelling in a Toyota RAV 4 Sport Utility Vehicle to Ibadan, the Oyo State capital for a wedding, The Nation reports.

Sources revealed that the husband and children were later released while the women were taken away after their mobile phones and other valuables were seized by their captors.

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, recently wrote a letter to the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, asking for his intervention.

The road leads to Ido Ekiti which has become notorious for kidnapping in the last two weeks.

About seven persons, including a former Chief Medical Director of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Dr Patrick Adegun, his wife, Kikelomo, a senior nurse at the Federal Teaching Hospital Ido Ekiti, Mrs Margaret Aladenika and a lecturer of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, had been kidnapped in the last two weeks in the state.