– The parents of the kidnapped secondary school children have decided to take matters into their hands
– According to the parents the government is not doing enough to rescue the abducted kids
– The kidnappers were demanding N100 million as ransom, as against the N400 million they had initially asked for
The parents of the six students kidnapped at the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, have decided to raise the ransom funds on their own.
According to Premium Times, the parents said the government had abandoned them.
One of the parents said: “What we wanted to do as parents was to beg them to listen to us so we can give them whatever we could raise.
Parents at Lagos State Model College, Igbonla following the abduction
“But they said ‘No’, they only wanted to negotiate with the government. They said they don’t want the stipend that we could raise.
“But now we have to raise the fund. We are raising whatever we can. Or what are we going to do?”
The kidnappers were demanding N100 million as ransom, as against the N400 million they had initially asked for.
Yet, the parents say they cannot not afford the money, adding that the kidnappers said they would only want to negotiate with the government.
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The spokesman for the parents said: “We are retired civil servants, fishermen, pensioners…there is absolutely no way we could raise N100 million and the government has said that it was not going to negotiate with kidnappers, so we are in confusion.”
One of the mothers said: “Definitely we can’t raise that amount (N100 million). We are trying to gather whatever we can and then beg them to accept it. Where are we going to get N100 million? From where?
“We cannot even raise N10 million. We are just calling on everybody to bring whatever we can get. We collate whatever we have and beg them.
“We are trying to raise loans here and there, calling on our relatives to gather funds, and raise whatever we can raise.”
Another angry parent said: “I don’t even want to hear about government again,” said one of the angry parents.
“What government? Do we have government? The only hope we have now is if newspapers can report it and they (kidnappers) hear about it, they will know government is not helping us. They will listen to us. It’s eleven days now.”
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Mr. Famous-Cole the spokesman for the Lagos police command said they were not informed of the reduced ransom of N100 million demanded by the kidnappers.
“I am saying that we do not negotiate or communicate with such people so there is no way I will be getting information from them,” he said.
The six students still with the kidnappers are Peter Jonah, Isiaq Rahmon, Adebayo George, Judah Agbausi, Pelumi Philips and Farouq Yusuf.
Meanwhile, Fatai Owoseni, the commissioner of police in Lagos state, is leading a team as the manhunt for the kidnappers of six students of Igbonla Model School, near Epe commences.
The team is to ensure that the victims who were kidnapped from their school as early as 5:00 am on Thursday, May 25, 2017 are rescued alive.
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A statement obtained by ZENITHBLOG.com said that Owoseni, in company of top police officers in the state, led a search and rescue team to the school and adjoining waterways as well as forest in search of the gunmen.
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