Gunmen Kidnap Two Kogi Poly Students, Demand N3m Ransom

Two female students of Kogi State Polytechnic, Itakpe Campus were reportedly kidnapped by gunmen Sunday, August 29, 2021.

The two students simply identified as Christiana and Kemi, were kidnapped around 7:30 p.m of the said day, after going to a church located in the outskirt of Osara in the Adavi Local Government Area of the state.

Siggy.ng has also learnt that a staff of Confluence University of Science and Technology, (CUSTECH), Osara identified as Joseph Simeon was also abducted alongside the female students.

According to reports, the kidnappers initially demanded a N30 million ransom but after negotiations by family members of one of the victims, they reduced it to N3 million.

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Meanwhile, CUSTECH management has confirmed that a staff of the institution was kidnapped alongside the Kogi Poly students.

The school’s spokesperson Balogun David, explained that the kidnappers shot sporadically into the air before they finally abducted the victims from the church.

“There was a kidnapping case on Sunday 29th August at Osara, Adavi Local Government Area, Kogi State around 7:30 p.m. A staff of CUSTECH working with the ICT department by the name Joseph Arome Simeon was kidnapped alongside two female students of Kogi State Polytechnic, Itakpe Campus.

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“From the details made available to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Salawu Sadiku and the Information Unit of CUSTECH, the trio had gone to the Living Faith Church located in the outskirt of Osara for a voice training session only for them to be kidnapped around 7:30 p.m. on that fateful day,” David told Siggy.ng correspondents.