Travelers trapped on the highway during the incident
Gunmen abduct 8 travellers in Kogi, demand N30m ransom for each victim
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted eight travellers in Oshokoshoko Community, on the Kabba/Obajana/Lokoja Highway.
The kidnappers are said to have demanded for N30 million ransom for each victim, among whom are two students, two women and four men.
Elupo Eliazer, a physically-challenged person, whose wife is among the victims, said the kidnappers initially called to demand first for N30 million but have reduced it to N2.6 million after negotiation.
“My wife and I were travelling to attend our church convention scheduled for Lokoja, but I decided to follow a different vehicle as the Toyota could not contain all of us, else I would have been in the car with her.
“The vehicle my wife boarded was ahead of the one I was in but all the occupants of the vehicle have been marched into the bush by the time his own vehicle got to the spot,” he said.
The police command in Kogi told newsmen that it had yet to receive any official report on the incident.
The command’s public relations officer, SP William Aya, had yet to confirm it as of the time of filing this report.
