Abductors Of Ondo Medical Director Demand N6m Ransom, Family Cry Out For Help

 

Abductors of the Chief Medical Director of General Hospital, Idoani, Ondo State, Olufemi Adeogun, have demanded a ransom of N6m.

Dr Adeogun was kidnapped on Monday evening while travelling on the failed portion of Owani-Idoani Road on the way Owo own.

He was abducted along side two other doctors , who were waylaid and seized on the road by the gunmen. 

One of the victims, Mrs Foluke Ajibola, may be a record officer within the government-owned hospital.

The kidnappers had shot the driving force of the vehicle within the arm before marching the abducted doctors into the forest. 

It was gathered that motorists plying the route, who witnessed the attack from a distance, reported the kidnap to the police. 

A family source, who ask to not be named, revealed that the hoodlums contacted the family with a personal telephone line. 

She explained that they initially demanded a ransom of N100m before it had been later reduced to N6m after several pleas. 

"The kidnappers contacted us and that they said we might need to pay the sum of N100m if we would like them to release the victims especially the doctor. 

"They have even spoken to us twice and asked what proportion we had been ready to raise but we were only begging them to possess mercy on us. 

"Later, they told us to travel and appearance for N6m which they need been ready to reduce the ransom for us but to source the fund remains a challenge. 

"We also are lecture families of the remaining victims too and that they can't raise such fund but the police have asked us to twiddling my thumbs , that they might rescue them."

Meanwhile, doctors within the hospital have decried the incessant kidnap of individuals within the axis, noting that security agencies needed to seek out a far better approach to tackle the menace. 

A medical doctor within the hospital told our correspondent that they were now living in fear of kidnappers going by latest events.

Mr Tee-Leo Ikoro, spokesperson for the police in Ondo State l, didn't answer calls when contacted on Wednesday.

Spokesperson for the Nigerian Army, 32 Artillery Brigade, Akure, Mr Ayorinde Omojokun, told NaijaGistReporters that that they had deployed men to the forest to secure the discharge of the victims.