- After multiple appeals to the kidnappers for a reduced ransom, they agreed to release her in exchange for N300,000
- The kidnappers initially demanded N50 million, but later reduced it to N500,000 due to the inability of her family and friends to secure such a sum
Taye Ajoke, a National Diploma student at the Nasarawa State-owned Isa Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic in Lafia, was abducted on Monday but has since been released.
Ajoke’s kidnappers were forced to release her after receiving a N300,000 ransom.
She was taken captive after heavily armed men stormed her home, Ombi 1, two km from the Polytechnic, while firing intermittently, and led her to an unidentified location.
Three people were shot during the event, including two other students and an applicant.
According to Ekom Ayaka, president of the polytechnic students union government, who spoke with our Punch on Thursday, Ajoke’s captors initially demanded a ransom of N50 million but later lowered it to N500,000 when they realised her family and well-wishers couldn’t pay their initial demand.
He continued by saying that following repeated requests for the kidnappers to lower their demands, they agreed to free her in exchange for N300,000.
He said, “We are grateful to God that Ajoke has been released by the bandits. She was released around 7pm on Wednesday after a ransom of N300,000 was paid.
“The kidnappers first wanted N50million but they later reduced the money to N500,000 when they understood that her family and friends will not be able to get such an amount.
“But after much appeal to them (kidnappers), they told her family to pay the sum of N300,000 that was in their possession. That was how she was released from captivity.”
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