The kidnappers of four pupils, a teacher and a vice-principal from the Lagos Junior Model College, have given the families 48-hour ultimatum to pay ransom placed on them
This demand follows reports that the health condition of one of the schoolboys abducted is deteriorating
The Lagos state police public relations officer, Dolapo Badmos, says the police is intensifying effort to rescue the victims
Four pupils, a teacher and a vice-principal of Lagos Junior Model College, Igbonla, Epe, were on Thursday, October 4, reportedly kidnapped by some hoodlums.
The victims have spent five days in the the kidnappers’ hideout. The abductors have given their families 48-hours to pay the ransoms placed on them.
This demand follows by the reports on Monday, October 10, that the health condition of the schoolboy is deteriorating.
Punch reports that the total ransoms demanded for the six victims had also been reduced to N6m from 30m.
The attackers were said to be five gunmen and a woman that last Thursday, at about 8am, invaded the school during the morning prayers.
The abductors reportedly shot into the air before whisking pupils off the school premises.
The Victims are identified as Isaac Adebisi, Okonkwo Emmanuel, Abu and Jeremiah; the English Language/Civic Education teacher, Lukman Oyerinde, and the Vice Principal (PV), A.O. Oyesola.
It was learned that the kidnappers, who were still believed to be within the Epe area, got across to the families of the victims on the following day and demanded N5m for each of them.
The gunmen were said to have also fired a warning shot while conversing with the families on the telephone as the families reportedly begged, promising to pay the ransoms.
The kidnappers, who reportedly told the family of the affected schoolboy that they had administered treatment to him, later reduced the ransom to N3.5m for each of the victims. By Monday, the ransom was reportedly reduced to N1m for each abducted person.
The men called on Monday and said they gave the family till Wednesday, October 12, to pay the ransom. While the family members begged them, the kidnappers let them realise that the health condition of the boy had worsened, but they would not release him without a good ransom. They had come down from N3.5m to N1m ransom.
”The boy’s family has been able to raise some money and they were begging the gunmen to accept what they had. I hope the kidnappers will have mercy and consider the condition of the sick pupil, and let him go,” a source said.
Another source, close to the family of one of the victims, said the family members had raised three-quarter of the ransom, adding that the money was not sourced from the government.
”It is true that they called to warn the parents that the boy’s health is deteriorating. They told them to bring the ransom before Wednesday. The family has been able to raise three-quarter of the money. They are rallying round for the remaining sum. Nobody from any quarters is assisting them to raise the ransom. They are begging the kidnappers and trying to meet the deadline.” she said.
The Lagos state police public relations officer, Dolapo Badmos, said in a text message on Monday that rescue operation was in progress.
Meanwhile, the police have paraded the kidnappers of Margaret Emefiele, the wife of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele.
Seven of them at a press conference and also unveiled the N15million naira cash ransom that they were paid to release Margaret after some hours.
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