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Kidnappers contact abducted nursing mother’s family in Kwara
Abductors of a nursing mother, Kehinde Ikeanabi Jubril, who was kidnapped at Ago-Oja town in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara state, have made contact with her family.
The nursing mother of a four-month-old baby was residing at her step-mother’s home in the town.
The suspected kidnappers were said to have used the cell phone of the abducted nursing mother to contact the family on Friday, according to the community leader of Ago-Oja, Baale Daudu Saludeen Arolu, on Saturday.
He said though the kidnappers initially demanded N10 million for the release of the woman, the family could only mobilise N1.5 million.
The kidnappers directed the family to deliver the N1.5m to them at a point in Eyeinkorin town on the Ilorin-Lagos highway on Friday, but this could not be located when the family of the woman got there.
Another message was thereafter sent to the family of the abducted woman on Friday to deliver the ransom at Ogbomoso town in Oyo State, yet they could not find them for the second time.
The nursing mother was abducted about two days to the Eid-el-Fitr celebrations at her husband’s residence, Ago-Oja, alongside a student of the Kwara state Polytechnic, Ilorin.
The student who eventually died as a result of the injuries he sustained during a bloody encounter with the armed kidnappers, was identified as Oriyomi Babatunde.
The kidnappers also collected N400,000 before his release but he later died in the hospital.
Meanwhile, the Ago-Oja community leaders in their frantic efforts, have invoked traditional means to secure the release of the abducted nursing mother.
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