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Oshorun Estate Landlords Flee Nigeria As Ijaw Kidnappers Reduce Victims Ransom From N1.2B To N200M
September 22, 2016 – Oshorun Estate Landlords Flee Nigeria As Ijaw Kidnappers Reduce Victims Ransom From N1.2Billion To N200Million
2 landlords at Oshorun Estate in Isheri area of Ogun State where suspected Ijaw militants abducted four people on Saturday have fled the country. Three other landlords have also relocated from Oshorun Estate.
The five landlords, who fled the estate, left amidst fear that the estates around the community were no longer safe. Earlier, families of those abducted have reportedly abandoned their houses in the estate.
Also, sources in Oshorun Estate disclosed that the kidnappers had reduced their demand from N1.2 billion to N200 million. Initially, the kidnappers asked families of the victims, three landlords and an aerobics instructor, to pay N300 million each but have now reduced it to N50 million each.
The Chief Security Officer (CSO) of the estate, Mr. Michael Adefura, said that five more landlords had moved out of the estate with their families. The kidnappers, on Saturday, abducted Dr. Bello Omololu, Mr. Esang, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Ayo, their trainer.
They were on their routine Saturday morning jogging and aerobic training at Lekki Gardens Estate, at Isheri community, when the kidnappers struck. The abducted landlords live on Peace Avenue in Oshorun Estate.
A source said that family members of the victims and members of the estates were now praying for divine intervention, as they feared that nobody could be able to meet such outrageous ransom demand. “We have started praying for God’s intervention.
Even the Federal Government cannot bring out such amount of money. May God touch the hearts of the kidnappers. Just because someone has built a house doesn’t mean the person is wealthy. Some of these landlords are managing; some converted part of their buildings into offices in order to be able to fend for their families.”
But Adefura said that five landlords moved out 48 hours after the abduction of their colleagues. According to him, the men fled over shock and fear of the unknown.
[Daily Telegraph]
fifelomo
September 22, 2016 at 6:08 AM
The fear of kidnappers is the beginning of running. May God have mercy on them.
Big Aunty Koks
September 22, 2016 at 6:10 AM
Let the landlords and their families move into the streets so the kidnappers will eat the houses since the fact of the landlords’ ability to build is what attracted the envy of these hoodlums! God dey!
But what is the Government at the local level doing to secure the community in the face of these incessant attacks on the people by hoodlums?
sola olaniyi
September 22, 2016 at 8:20 AM
Nigeria is not safe mehn
Jilo
September 22, 2016 at 10:25 PM
The logic is those looters who are using our money to buy property across Nigeria, how do you want to live in those houses? I’m not talking about hardworking people who worked for their hard earned money. All we need to do is to establish an egalitarian society. Build up our nation first and other things will follow but because of your greediness , you yourself cannot sleep again. You will end up abandoning multimillion Naira house that you built with stolen money. What goes around always comes around.
It is very sad that our politicians have made this Country inhabitable for us even for themselves too. Most of their children living in western world cannot even come back home for short visit because of bad news. Who want to risk his/her life to be kidnapped by the vicious kidnappers. Then the question becomes who is going to inherit these properties. Those ptoperties will later become an hide out for hoodlums and den of kidnappers. We are not just capable of govern ourselves.