Kidnapped Nasarawa Poly student regains freedom after N300, 000 ransom payment

Taye Ajoke, a final year National Diploma student at Nasarawa State’s Isa Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic in Lafia, has been set free after being kidnapped.

Ajoke was taken by a group of heavily armed individuals who invaded her residence, Ombi 1, situated just two kilometers away from the Polytechnic. During the attack, they also fired at two other students and an aspiring student.

As reported by Punch, Ajoke’s captors released her following the payment of a ransom amounting to N300,000.

Ekom Ayaka, the President of the Students Union Government at the polytechnic, verified this development on Thursday, September 28. He disclosed that the abductors initially demanded N50 million but later reduced the ransom to N500,000 upon realizing that her family and supporters could not gather such a sum.

After persistent appeals to the kidnappers for a reduction in the ransom, they eventually accepted N300,000 in exchange for her release.

“We are grateful to God that Ajoke has been released by the bandits. She was released around 7pm on Wednesday after a ransom of N300,000 was paid,” Ayaka said. 

“The kidnappers first wanted N50million but they later reduced the money to N500,000 when they understood that her family and friends will not be able to get such an amount

“But after much appeal to them (kidnappers), they told her family to pay the sum of N300,000 that was in their possession. That was how she was released from captivity,” he added.