Lokoja -The Police in Lokoja have rescued three
students of the Kogi State Polytechnic kidnapped
during a Christian fellowship programme on
Wednesday.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu,
told newsmen in Lokoja on Friday while parading
their kidnappers that the students were rescued
after spending three days with their abductors.
Ojukwu said the students, Ayodele Ojo , Isaac
Oaikhena and Sefiat Musa were rescued from the
kidnappers' hideout along Gadabiu-Kabba Junction
Obajana road without paying the N20 million ransom
demanded.
He said one suspect, Ibrahim Jibo, who was
arrested on Thursday when he came to collect the
ransom was already helping the police to arrest his
accomplices.
Narrating their ordeal, one of the victims, Ayodele
Ojo, said that they were kidnapped at the middle of a
fellowship prayer at about 7.30 p.m. on Oct. 14, at
the Osara campus.
He said that the kidnappers suddenly emerged and
collected their mobile hand-held phones, money
and other valuables and later abducted three of
them.
While in captivity, he said, their abductors called
their parents and relations to demand a N20 million
ransom for their release but nothing was
forthcoming.
Ojo said that the development angered the
abductors who started maltreating them before they
were rescued three days after.
The police commissioner said that the abductors
would not escape justice.
He also paraded 23 other suspects arrested for
armed robbery, illegal gun manufacturing and
political thuggery at Ejule Ofu Local government
area of the state.
Six guns, including AK47 rifles, locally made guns,
bullet proof vests, charms, ammunition, weeds
suspected to be Indian hemp and a Ford Galaxy bus
with registration number Oyo AH 5095 HK.
The Police said that all the suspects would be
charged to court soon.
