The police of Enugu State rescued two students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), from kidnappers' den on February 25, 2014, Tuesday. The students, Alexander Afamefuna Akadieze and Miracle Chukwuemeka, regained their freedom after one week in captivity.
According to DailyPost, the victims were kidnapped in the evening of February 17, from their hostel, located opposite the school gate.
When the students came downstairs to buy some water, they encountered a group of hoodlums numbering about four people.
The kidnappers pointed a gun at the victims, ordered them to get into a standby taxi, from where they were taken to an unknown destination.
The rescued teenagers revealed that the suspected kidnappers made them tell their parents' names and phone numbers. The abductors started calling them, demanded the sum of N20m.
They later reduced the ransom to N10m, but kept threatening the parents that if the police were involved, they would will kill the hostages.
The anti-kidnapping squad in Enugu has carried out an operation, through information garnered from relevant quarters, which led to the arrest of one of the gang members.
The suspect, who was a commercial motorcyclist at Ituku, disclosed how he conveyed one of the fleeing hoodlums with pure water and food-flask to the forest near Ufam stream in Ituku. It was the exact place where the two victims were held hostage.
"Victims were, however, rescued after intensive confrontation inside the den as hoodlums escaped with various degree of injuries just as manhunt on them are intensified.
"At the den after the encounter, a Berreta pistol with some ammunition belonging to the hoodlums was also recovered", spokesperson of Enugu police revealed.
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