The circle of relatives of a 71-year-old farmer, Bamidele Mathew, kidnapped along his son in Kwara State, says it’s residing in anxiousness following the expiration of a 48-hour ultimatum issued by means of the abductors to pay a ₦20 million ransom.
The sufferers, indigenes of Odo-Owa in Oke-Ero Native Executive Space, have been kidnapped remaining Tuesday alongside the Idofin-Igbana axis whilst on their strategy to their farm.
Every other son of the farmer, Kazeem, who narrowly escaped abduction, advised LEADERSHIP that the gunmen emerged from the bush in massive numbers, attacked them at gunpoint and whisked away his father and brother.
Talking with LEADERSHIP on Sunday, the farmer’s eldest son, Sunday Ayanwale, mentioned the ransom cut-off date had handed, whilst the abductors had no longer contacted the circle of relatives since Friday.
“We live in anxiousness because the expiration of the ultimatum issued to us by means of the abductors. We’re much more terrified by means of the refusal of the abductors to name us since Friday. We attempted the telephone choice of our kidnapped father time and again, nevertheless it used to be switched off,” he mentioned.
Ayanwale mentioned the circle of relatives were not able to protected help and had raised most effective ₦1.3 million in opposition to the ransom.
“We don’t know the placement of our father and our brother as I discuss with you,” he mentioned.
Requested in regards to the circle of relatives’s subsequent line of motion, he mentioned that they had resorted to prayers for divine intervention.
He renewed the circle of relatives’s enchantment to the Kwara State Executive and Oke-Ero Native Executive Council to lend a hand protected the discharge of the sufferers.
When contacted, the state Commissioner of Police, Adekimi Ojo, mentioned: “We’re doing the considered necessary to protected the discharge of the sufferers.”
When contacted, the state commissioner of police, Adekimi Ojo mentioned :” We’re doing the considered necessary to protected the discharge of the sufferers.”
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