Police rescue three abducted Kogi Poly students

NAN

The Kogi State Police Command has rescued three students of the Kogi State Polytechnic, who were kidnapped during a Christian fellowship programme on Wednesday.

Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, told newsmen in Lokoja on Friday, while parading the kidnappers, that the students were rescued after spending three days with their abductors.

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Ojukwu explained that the victims - Ayodele Ojo , Isaac Oaikhena and Sefiat Musa - were rescued from the kidnappers’ hideout along Gadabiu-Kabba Junction, Obajana Road, without paying the N20m ransom demanded by the hoodlums.

He said one suspect, Ibrahim Jibo, who was arrested on Thursday when he came to collect the ransom, was already helping the police to arrest his accomplices.

Narrating their ordeal, one of the victims, Ayodele Ojo, said they were kidnapped at the middle of a fellowship prayer at about 7.30 p.m. on October 14 (Wednesday) at the Osara campus.

He added that the kidnappers suddenly emerged and collected their mobile hand-held phones, money and other valuables and later abducted three of them.

While in captivity, he said, their abductors called their parents and relations to demand a N20m ransom for their release but nothing was forthcoming.

Ojo stated that the development angered the abductors, who started maltreating them before they were rescued on the third day.

The police commissioner said the abductors would not escape justice.

He also paraded 23 other suspects arrested for armed robbery, illegal gun manufacturing and political thuggery at Ejule Ofu Local government Area of the state.