Aminat Lawal, the sister of the abducted National Youth Service Corps member, Rofiat Lawal, who was kidnapped along the Benin-Ore Expressway on Tuesday, Feb. 25, has claimed that her Rofiat was handed over to the abductors by the driver conveying them.
Aminat told Punch on Thursday, Feb. 27, that Rofiat was abducted while returning to her Place of Primary Assignment in Oyo State.
Aminat said her sister narrated that the driver conveying them from Benin stopped at Ore where the kidnappers came out from a nearby bush and took them while the driver zoomed off.
She added that when the kidnappers contacted Rofiat’s family, they demanded N25m ransom for her release, which they pleaded they could not pay, but after several back and forth, they lowered the demand to N5m.
Aminat told Punch, “She contacted us on Tuesday to tell us that she was kidnapped and she said that the driver of the car she boarded was the one who dropped them at the spot where she was kidnapped alongside other passengers.
“When we spoke with the kidnappers, they asked us to bring N25m and we told them that we did not have such money. She is the one who sponsored herself in school. They have reduced the ransom to N5m.”
A friend of the victim identified as Agbakwara, who raised the alarm about Rofiat’s kidnap in a post on Facebook on Wednesday, Feb. 26, stated that Rofiat struggled all her life, supporting herself through university by working at the Dufil company in Benin and her parents are less privileged and can’t afford the ransom.
Meanwhile, the family has resorted to crowdfunding to raise the ransom as requested by the abductors.
