3 weeks after, 3 teachers, corps member still with abductors
WHEREABOUTS of three teachers and a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) abducted three weeks ago at Agba Ndele Community Secondary School in Emohua Local Government Area of River State are still unknown.
The teachers are Joseph Dimpa, Martina Ofuru, Charity Mbajike and Obinna Duru (corps member), as well as Jonathan Woforu (a security man at the school).
The victims were abducted on Monday, October 12, 2015, when gunmen stormed the school during learning hours and whisked them away through the creeks.
This is even as the abductors had, through a member of the Council of Chiefs in the community, reduced the initial ransom from N25 million to N2.5 million each.
Daily Sun gathered that the suspected kidnappers reduced the amount to N2.5 million, when they found out that the community could not afford the amount.
It was further gathered that the hoodlums had start- ed contacting the victims’ families demanding the ransom from them.
According to the para- mount ruler of Agba-Ndele Community, Eze Godwin Iransi, the kidnappers reduced the money from N25 million to N8 million and finally N2.5 million.
Eze Iransi maintained that, even with the reduction, the community could not afford the ransom and pleaded with the gunmen to release them unconditionally. He later confirmed that since the community was not forthcoming with the collective ransom, the hoodlums resorted to contacting the individual families of the victims and demanding N2.5million for each.
Daily Sun checks revealed that the school still remains deserted, as neither teachers nor students have returned to school. Mr. God’sway Oginde, a native of the community, who spoke with the reporters, said the school remained closed out of fear of uncertainty.
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