At last, Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme of the Federal Court of Appeal, Benin kidnapped on October 30, 2019 along the Benin-Agbor road has been released by her abductors. She was let off the hook on Wednesday night.
Reports say that Chioma Nwosu-Iheme was kidnapped exactly two weeks ago along the Benin-Agbor road when four fully armed bandits in a Toyota Voltron car intercepted the Sport Utility Vehicle of the judicial officer, killing the police orderly on the spot while the driver died from the gunshots while receiving treatments in the hospital three days after the ugly incident.
Although as at the time of filing this report, no official statement has been issued by the Nigeria’s police authorities as at the filing this report, but a very close family member of the released court of appeal confirmed her release from the captivity of her abductors.
While the family source did not reveal if any ransome was paid to secure her release, information preview to our reporter had it that, the kidnappers started with an initial demand of N2 billion and N1billion.
It would be recalled that prior to the kidnap incident of the court of appeal judge, on October 22, Abdul Dogo; a judge of the Federal high court, Akure, Ondo state was kidnapped along the Lokoja-Okene bypass while on his way from Abuja to Akure was kidnapped and the abductors demanded the sum of N50 million as ransome while BusinessDay transport editor travelling with Good Is God commercial passenger bus escaped by the whiskers at the same scene and the same time when the Akure-based judicial was apprehended and taken away for four days before he was released.
MIKE OCHONMA
