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ONDO: Herdsmen kidnap woman, stepson, demand N10m ransom
Herdsmen struck on Sunday in Akure as they abducted a woman, Mrs Olawumi Adeleye, and her stepson, Destiny Paul, on Airport Road, Osi, in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State.
The victims, according to sources, were kidnapped while they were on their way from church on Sunday.
Continuing, the source said the herdsmen blocked the road with cows, forcing Adeleye, who was driving a Lexus car, to stop, thereby making it easy for the abductors to take her and Paul to an unknown destination.
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“Mrs Adeleye was coming from the church with her boy when suddenly, the Fulani herdsmen put scores of their cows on the road. As the woman was trying to make a U-turn in order to escape from the scene, they attacked her, damaged her car and took her and the boy away,” the source said.
The herdsmen were said to have contacted the husband of the the woman few hours later, demanding for a ransom of N10 million.
Femi Joseph, the spokesman of the Ondo State Police command, who confirmed the development, said the police was already after the hoodlums.
“We have already swung into action and we will soon get the victims back unhurt. We have also started investigating the incident,” Joseph stated.
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