A Niger Republic-based kidnapping syndicate has demanded the payment of $100, 000 as ransom for the release of its 15-year-old victim, Precious Okoro.
The victim’s father, Nwaigwe, explained that Precious was kidnapped around Songotedo, in the Ajah area of Lagos State, where she had boarded a commercial vehicle en route to her school in Ikenne, Ogun State.
He said he never knew his daughter had been abducted until two weeks later when the school management contacted him to say Precious had not reported in school.
He explained that he reported the matter to the police at the Ajah Police Division, where he was asked to exercise patience.
He said the cops initially thought she fled to a boyfriend’s house.
Nwaigwe, a trader, said he was later contacted by the kidnappers, who informed him that his daughter was in Niamey, the Niger Republic capital.He said,