Taye Ajoke, a National Diploma student of the Nasarawa State-owned Isa Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic, Lafia, whom gunmen on Monday abducted, has regained freedom after her abductors collected a ransom of N300,000.
The Informant247 reports that the student was abducted after heavily armed men attacked her residence, Ombi 1, two kilometres from the Polytechnic.
The incident left two other students and an admission seeker with bullet wounds.
Ekom Ayaka, the President of the Students Union Government of the polytechnic, while confirming her release on Thursday, said Ajoke’s kidnappers had earlier called to demand N50 Million but later reduced the ransom to N500,000 when they noticed that her family and well-wishers could not meet up with their earlier request.
Ayaka added that after several appeals to the kidnappers for a further reduction of the ransom, they agreed to release her in exchange for N300,000.
He said, “We are grateful to God that Ajoke has been released by the bandits. She was released around 7 p.m. on Wednesday after a ransom of N300,000 was paid.
“The kidnappers first wanted N50 million, but they later reduced the money to N500,000 when they understood that her family and friends would 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 in their possession. That was how she was released from captivity.”