Kidnapped Ekiti council workers regain freedom

Funke AzeezJanuary 5, 2019

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The Police in Ekiti State said on Saturday that the two officials of the Emure Local Government Area of the state, who were kidnapped by gunmen on Wednesday night had regained their freedom.

The two council staff, Pastor A. Onaade, an administrative officer and Dr. O. Fashina, a primary healthcare official, were kidnapped along Ikere – Ise – Emure Road while returning to Ado Ekiti.

However, an accountant with the local government, Mr Abayomi Ajayi, was on the occasion shot dead by the gunmen who took the two council officials into captivity and demanded N10 million each as ransom from families of the two kidnap victims.

Police Public Relations Office for Ekiti State Command, DSP Caleb Ikechukwu, told journalists that the captives were freed from their abductors by the police.

Ikechukwu said: “The Commissioner of Police, Mr Asuquo Amba, had visited the kidnap victims in their respective homes. They are in good shape. It is the duty of the police to ensure that everybody is safe and that we shall continue to do.”

Although he did not disclose the location where the victims regained their freedom, he said the issue of ransom was not discussed, adding: “The victims never brought this to our notice, they didn’t tell us they paid anything.

“All we did was to do our work and to ensure that they returned home safe and in good health and that we had achieved,” the police spokesman said.

The police, which on Thursday said investigations were ongoing into the killing of the accountant, are yet to disclose whether he was killed by kidnappers or armed robbers