Kidnappers Demand 20m Ransom For Teacher in Ekiti
Mr festus olatunde Oke, a school teacher in Ekiti state, has been kidnapped while on a trip with his family.
Reports reaching Osun Defending say the kidnappers have made contact with his family members on Wednesday, just two days after his abduction and demanded a ransom of N20million . The wife of the victim also identified the kidnappers as Fulani
When contacted, the Secretary of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in Ekiti State, Mr.Olugbenga Ajibade, confirmed that the family had been contacted, saying “we in the NUT are also in contact with the family.”
Ajibade said, “we have also learnt that the kidnappers demanded a ransom of N20million and we have been confused since the development.”
“We are at our wit’s end because we don’t even know how to come about that huge amount of money. We don’t even know how a teacher is expected to raise N20 million.”
The NUT scribe pleaded with the security operatives and the state government to come to the aid of the union by ensuring timely release of their member.
The teacher was kidnapped at a point on Ise – Ikere road by unknown people on Monday around 6pm and taken into the forest while coming from Ado to his station with his wife and mother.
The kidnappers were said to have collected the phones of his wife and mother and abandoned them in his Toyota Camry car in which they were travelling, and led Oke into the bush.
