– 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.


Lagos-model-college-igbonla
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.
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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.
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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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