NYSC Kidnap: N950m Ransom Throws Families into Panic
Abductors who seized 19 graduates travelling from Ibadan, Oyo State, to their National Youth Service Corps orientation camps have demanded N950m for their release, Frontline Reporters has learnt.
The victims were travelling in two buses when gunmen attacked them along the Owerri-Onitsha Road in Umunoha, Imo State, on Thursday.
The Managing Director of Uko Akwa Ibom Motors Nigeria Limited, Isiah Akpan, who confirmed the incident on Friday, said the gunmen demanded N50m for each of the victims.
He said the occupants of the two vehicles, owned by his company, were corps members heading to orientation camps in Abia and Akwa Ibom states.
Frontline Reporters gathered that the abductors contacted some of the victims’ families and demanded N50m for each person.
The ransom demand has heightened anxiety among the families as security operatives continue efforts to locate the missing passengers.
Recounting how the incident happened, Akpan said the two buses left Bodija/Samonda Park in Ibadan on Wednesday but were delayed by traffic around Benin, Edo State.
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