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Six, Including Corps Members, Pregnant Woman Kidnapped In Kogi

Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting

Gunmen have abducted six persons, including some members of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), and a pregnant woman from Benue State.

The victims, among whom there is a young orphan girl, were abducted around Ochadamu community after Ayangba in Kogi State.

Stonix News gathered that the corps members and the other victims had boarded a Benue Links 14-seater bus from Gboko Local Government Area to Lagos State when they were intercepted by the gunmen near Ochadamu Junction in neighbouring Ayangba in Kogi State.

The gunmen reportedly robbed them of their valuables, while six out of the 13 passengers on board were kidnapped and whisked to an unknown destination.

Meanwhile, the abductors are said to be demanding N60 million as ransom for the release of the six persons.

Driver of the Benue Links bus, Emmanuel Owoicho, spoke to journalists on the saga.

He said: “On Saturday I was travelling to Lagos. So, after Ayangba, the place is called Ochadamu junction.

“On reaching there around after 4:00p.m, I saw some men coming out of the bush and started shooting at us.

“I wanted to go ahead, but later I realized that if I did that, they would riddle the bus with bullets so, I parked.

“Many others came from the bush and started robbing us. They collected our money, phones, everything we had they collected.

“Then they asked us to lie on the road but on sighting a trailer on high speed approaching, the leader of the robbers asked us to get up and stay by the roadside.

“He now asked six persons to follow him, three men and three female into the bush.

“I called back my passengers and we got to a Naval check point and reported the incident to them.

“After over 30 to 40 minutes search, the Naval Officers came back to say they could not find the kidnappers.

“The next day, I went to the Police Station in Ayingba to formally report the incident and they instructed me to go.

“I then took the remaining passengers back to Gboko. I had left Gboko by after 10:00a.m on that Saturday and got to that junction at about 4:00p.m.

“I picked 13 passengers from Gboko on that day and they kidnapped six. They collected N42,000 from me.

“The kidnappers are demanding N10 million as ransom from those kidnapped but their families are negotiating between N750,000 and N450,000.

“There is an orphaned girl whose family said they only have N80,000.”

 

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