Aminat Lawal, the sister of the abducted National Youth Service Corps member, Rofiat Lawal, says her sister was handed over to the abductors who she said were suspected Fulani herdsmen by the driver of the vehicle she boarded to Ibadan
Rofiat was allegedly abducted along the Benin-Ore Expressway on Tuesday .
Aminat made this known in an interview yesterday with a news daily.
Recall that Rofiat was abducted by yet-to-be-identified kidnappers as she was returning to her Place of Primary Assignment in Oyo State.
A friend of the kidnapped corps member identified as Agbakwara, who alerted the public and family about Rofiat’s kidnap in a post on Facebook on Wednesday, noted that the abductors were asking the sum of N20m for her release.
Agbakwara wrote, “My close friend, Lawal Rofiat Kofoworola, was kidnapped on her way from Benin to Ibadan to resume her PPA in Ogbomosho. She managed to call yesterday and told me she was on an Ore-bound bus when she was taken.
“This is someone who has struggled all her life, supporting herself through university by working at the Dufil company in Benin. Now, kidnappers are demanding N20 million, and we don’t know what to do. Her parents are less privileged and can’t afford this.
“I have reported to the NYSC Secretariat in Ibadan and dropped her call-up number, but there has been no response. We are exhausted and desperate for help.”
She noted that her sister narrated that the driver taking them from Benin stopped at Ore where the kidnappers came out from a nearby bush and took them while the driver zoomed off.
She narrated that when the kidnappers contacted them, they demanded N25m ransom for her release, which they pleaded they could not pay, but after several back and forth, they lowered the demand to N5m.
Aminat said, “She contacted us on Tuesday to tell us that she was kidnapped and she said that the driver of the car she boarded was the one who dropped them at the spot where she was kidnapped alongside other passengers.
“When we spoke with the kidnappers, they asked us to bring N25m and we told them that we did not have such money. She is the one who sponsored herself in school. They have reduced the ransom to N5m.”
Meanwhile, the family had resorted to crowdfunding to raise the ransom as requested by the abductors.
In a follow-up conversation with Agbakwara, on Thursday, he noted that the family had resorted to crowdfunding to raise the ransom demanded by the abductors while corroborating the claim that the abducted corper was handed over to her abductors by the driver.
“This evening, the kidnappers allowed my friend and the other victims to call their families. She told me in tears that they were handed over to the Fulani kidnappers after the vehicle they were in dropped them off and drove away. They are all female and have been suffering without food since they were taken.
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