The police of Enugu State rescued two students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), from kidnappers’ den on February 25, 2014, Tuesday.
The students, Alexander Afamefuna Akadieze and Miracle Chukwuemeka, regained their freedom after one week in captivity.
According
to DailyPost, the victims were kidnapped in the evening of February 17,
from their hostel, located opposite the school gate.
When the students came downstairs to buy some water, they encountered a group of hoodlums numbering about four people.
The
kidnappers pointed a gun at the victims, ordered them to get into a
standby taxi, from where they were taken to an unknown destination.
The
rescued teenagers revealed that the suspected kidnappers made them tell
their parents’ names and phone numbers. The abductors started calling
them, demanded the sum of N20m.
They later
reduced the ransom to N10m, but kept threatening the parents that if
the police were involved, they will kill the hostages.
The
anti-kidnapping squad in Enugu has carried out an operation, through
information gathered from relevant quarters, which led to the arrest of
one of the gang members.
The
suspect, who was a commercial motorcyclist at Ituku, disclosed how he
conveyed one of the fleeing hoodlums with pure water and food-flask to
the forest near Ufam stream in Ituku. It was the exact place where the
two victims were held hostage.
“Victims
were, however, rescued after intensive confrontation inside the den as
hoodlums escaped with various degree of injuries just as manhunt on them
are intensified.
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