Ekiti Kidnap: Abductors request N30m ransom
April 27, 2020
The suspected abductors of the Ekiti Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Folorunsho Olabode, has requested N30 million payment from his family to secure his freedom.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the presumed abductors assaulted the official and two others in his vehicle along Isan Ekiti-Iludun Ekiti road on Sunday night.
The driver of the vehicle, who was the leader of the legislative arm of Ilejemeje Local Government in Ekiti, Omotoso Olatunji, was killed during the assault.
The casualties were said to travel Iye Ekiti, their nation home, when the suspected shooters assaulted them.
NAN reports that the speculated abductors reached the family on telephone for the payoff to make sure about his opportunity.
A family source, who argued obscurity, told writers in Ado Ekiti that the ruffians called the family to request the payoff.
The source approached Governor Kayode Fayemi to act the hero, saying that: "the whole Iye Ekiti, his old neighborhood and family are disturbed now since we feel his life is in harm's way."
"We are concerned and we have begun exchange with the abductors. We implore they discharge him in great, sound and safe condition.
"We would prefer not to lose such a distinguished child and we are asking the state Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, and all the security contraption of government to do all inside their forces to save him alive."
The Ekiti Police Command, be that as it may, said it didn't know about the payoff.
The Command Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP. Sunday Abutu, said the order didn't know about any arrangements on the interest by the abductors.
He guaranteed that safety efforts would be set up to make sure about the arrival of the official and one other in bondage.
"We don't know that the outlaws were mentioning for any payoff, we have not been told.
"The police have started genuine security checks in that hub and that may be answerable for why the individuals said the street had been shut down.
"We just took severe safety efforts", he said.
Abutu said the police, as a team with other security offices, were at that point brushing the woods suspected to be the refuges being utilized for prisoner taking by scoundrels.
He likewise said there was additionally no fact in the talk getting out and about that Iludun-Isan thruway, where the casualties were assaulted, had been shut for security concerns.
The PPRO guaranteed the individuals of the express that the abductors would be brought to book.
(NAN)