Kidnappers of eight Akwa Ibom graduates abducted in Zamfara on their way to Sokoto for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp have demanded an additional N200 million as ransom after collecting N13 million earlier paid by the victims’ families.
The victims, who were kidnapped on August 17, have spent 26 days in the kidnappers’ den.
Vanguard reports that frustrated family members have resorted to fasting and prayers after the new demands by the abductors.
A brother to one of the victims quoted in the report said: “We don’t know how we are going to raise that kind of money. Everybody was shocked when two parents, who have been over there since the incident happened, told us that after they released the balance of N8 million (to make up the N13 million ransom negotiated), they waited for long for the kidnappers to release our brothers and sisters, but they didn’t.
“They said instead, the kidnappers contacted them to demand N200 million ransom. We have paid N13 million already. First, we paid N5 million, later N8 million to make up the N13 million. Some parents sold their lands, and some even collected loans to raise the N13 million.
“We have not received any help from the government. We found it difficult to raise that N13 million. So, how are we going to raise this fresh ransom of N200 million? We have deliberately kept this development from my mother. I don’t think that poor widow will survive if she hears this. We are suffering and helpless.”
Another relative close to one of the victims’ parents said the victims’ families were particularly worried after being told on Monday that their children’s health conditions were deteriorating due to the nature of the place they were being held captive.
FAKE NEWS WITH THE MISREPRESENTATION OF FACT EVEN IN OWN REPORTAGE THUS REPRODUCED BELOW.
““Is the diploma authentic or is it a forgery? My client can’t answer yes to either of those questions,” Mr Hayes said at the hearing in Chicago in the lawsuit brought by Atiku Abubakar, Mr Tinubu’s main challenger and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the February 25 presidential election.””
A FISHING EXPEDITION TO NOWHERE.
The court position on the matter has become clearer. From now it would be judicial jargons that leaves the serial bad election loser nothing but empty hand to be further bemused and heartbroken.
The University just played the smart card. How do you expect it to validate and or dispel whatever Tinubu presented to INEC? which it was not party to.
BESIDES WHEN DID ANY ADDITION AFTER THE FACT START APPLTING TO APPEAL AT THE SUPREME COURT.
The highest court usually deliberate on matter evidence and disclosures from the lower court for consideration not the result of an expedition on wasteful exercises that might waste the time of the court and or a reckless judicial misadventure.
SOMEONE MIGHT JUST GET HOLD OF THE IDLE SOUR LOSER Waziri TO FIND SOMETHING BETTER DOING WITH HIS LIFE AND DESIST FROM BAD BLOODLETTING WHICH MAY SICKEN HIM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFETIME.