Three students Ayodele Ojo, Sefiat Musa and Isaac Oaikhena, of the Kogi State Polytechnic who were reportedly kidnapped during a Christian fellowship programme on Wednesday, have been rescued by the police in Lokoja.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, while parading their kidnappers in Lokoja on Friday, told newsmen that the students were rescued after spending days with their abductors.
One of the victims, Ojo, while narrating their ordeal, said that they were kidnapped at the middle of a fellowship prayer at about 7:30 p.m on October 14, at the Osara campus, noting that the kidnappers suddenly emerged and collected their mobile hand-held phones, money and other valuables and later abducted three of them.
Ojo further noted that while in captivity, their abductors called their parents and relations to demand a N20 million ransom for their release but nothing was forthcoming.
He said the development angered the abductors who started maltreating them before they were rescued.
According to the police commissioner, the trio was rescued from the kidnappers’ hideout along Gadabiu-Kabba Junction Obajana road without paying the N20 million ransom demanded.
Ojukwu 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 one after the other.
Ojukwu said that the abductors would not escape justice and would be charged to court as soon as the others now at large, are apprehended.
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