Akwa Ibom NYSC: Abductors Request for N50m Ransom to Release Remaining Victim

Fifty million Naira ransom has been placed on one of the eight remaining abducted NYSC members, kidnapped in Zamfara State.

Bassey Daniel an indigene of Akwa Ibom State was kidnapped in Zamfara along with seven other members.

The mother of the victim, Mrs Margaret Daniel, and petty trader disclosed this while fielding questions from Vanguard in her community, Afaha Ube Itam, in Itu local government area on Thursday.

Mrs Margaret who could not hold back the tears lamented that she has nobody that could raise such huge amount of money the Zamfara kidnappers are demanding.

She lamented, “I am just a petty trader, I sell Akara and Bread. How are my going to raise that kind of money? I am helpless and in fact when that amount of money was mentioned I fell sick. And l have been asking God why my only son?

“They were Nine people that were kidnapped that day in Zamfara the other eight have regained their freedom, remaining my son. They are demanding N50million, I don’t have that kind of money. His father died a long time ago when he (Bassey) was just 3years old.

“I struggled alone to raise him and train him in School. I used the small money from the Akara business to send my boy to School, from Primary School, Secondary and Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic.

“I have been asking God why this happened to me. I suffered so much. And I am appealing to Akwa Ibom State governor, Pastor Umo Eno, the NYSC officials and security agencies to help bring my only son back to me. “

Speaking another family member, Mr. Imoh asserted, “We appreciate the security agencies and NYSC management for the effort they have made to ensure those children were released. And today we are still begging them to help this our son Solomon Bassey Daniel.

” We are worried. And any time the mother see Corps members on their uniform I tell you she feels terribly sad. So we are begging them to help us”

It could be recalled that a female and the last but one of the victims of the Zamfara kidnap incident regained her freedom on June 12, 2024.

However, it was speculated then within the state capital that her relatives raised huge amount of money, (amount not disclosed) as ransom before she was freed.