By Adebimpe Afunku
Kidnappers of a motor dealer in Ijebu Ode, Abiodun Olokodana, weekend, released their victim after his family paid N4 million ransom.
The businessman was reportedly abducted at his office on old Ondo Road, Ijebu ode, last week Tuesday by four hefty men driving a picnic car and armed with guns, as he was about to break his fast.
Recounting his experience Olokodana said, “I was about breaking my fast with water and corn when I saw the four men. I thought they came for business only to see them point guns at me.
“One of them slapped me and before I could say anything, I was pushed into their car and blindfolded. When we got somewhere, the vehicle malfunctioned and they took me on a bike and rode away.
“I was kept inside a bush where a makeshift camp was made round the area. One of them was on top of a tree with a gun keeping watch over me while another was with me all through and others outside.”
The kidnappers had initially demanded for 40million but reduced it to N5million when the family was not able to come up with the sum and finally settled for the N4million the family was able to raise.
According to him, the money was dropped for the abductors on the Ibefun-Imodi-Ijasi, Itoikin-Ikorodu Road after which they later dropped him at a church at Ala with a Camry car around 9:30 pm.
He expressed hope that the Police will catch up with the gang and stop them from subjecting people to such humiliating situation.
