Kidnapped NTA Akure Female Journalist Regains Freedom, Another Kidnapped

Olubunmi Oke, the female journalist with NTA Akure who was kidnapped on Thursday March 21 as she returned home from work, has been released. Bunmi regained her freedom yesterday Sunday March 24th.

“I confirm that she has been released. I spoke with her early this morning shortly after she was set free by her abductors. She was set free and abandoned in a bush near Ondo town, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) from Akure from where she boarded a lorry home. She is hale and hearty and happy to be back home."

Rotimi Obamuwagun, vice president of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, told AFP.

Her abductors had asked for N8million but is is unclear if any ransom was paid before she was freed.

In other News, there's been another kidnap in Akure, barely two days after the kidnap of this NTA reporter, Olubunmi Oke.

Ms Kehinde Olusanya, has been abducted by unknown persons in the town. This is coming just as Oke was released Saturday night, after spending three days with the kidnappers.

However, Ms Olusanya was said to have been taken away by a four-man  gang at her Ayedun residence in Akure, in the presence of her twin sister.
She was reportedly kidnapped on Saturday, around 1.00 a.m. after her abductors gained entrance into their apartment and forcefully took her away, as the twin sisters live together and run a boutique and beautician shops inside the Town Hall shopping mall, in Akure.

Olusanya is one of the twins of the late High Chief Josiah Olusanya, the Asamo of Akure and her twin sister is married to a former secretary to Ondo State government, Fioye Bajowa.
 

The gunmen were said to have taken the victim away to an unknown destination in a car without taking anything from the house.
The victim’s family members are yet to be reached by the kidnappers.
We pray for here safe return.

Culled from Tribune