- kidnappers demand N5m ransom
An 18-year-old artisan has been kidnapped by unknown GUNMEN in Ogueka on the Benin- Ehor road in Edo state.
The victim, Osarodion Otamere Imade is one of the youths in Benin city currently learning a trade as a tiler.
Standard Gazette learned that the victim had gone to join his boss at a site to fix tiles but was kidnapped at the roadside near Ogueka village.
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Standard Gazette crime correspondent Festus Alenkhe gathered that the kidnappers are holding him for ransom in a nearby bush in Ogueka.
The armed men had already called the family members to demand N5m as ransom.
But the victim’s elder sister said,” the kidnappers called for N5m, but we have been able to raise N50,000.
“I have told them what we have but they started beating my brother. I appeal to everyone to come to our aid now.
“My father is currently sick, and we can not raise such money. He was kidnapped since 25 May 2021, and we have been worried”.
The police in Edo state is yet to make a statement on the incident.
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