By Adadareporters
Passengers of Bright Mass Transit, who were kidnapped Wednesday evening at Ette, a border community between Enugu and Kogi states, have placed N5m ransom on each of them before effecting their release.
It was gathered that they were kidnapped on their way to Abuja from Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.
Ette is a town hosting some natives of Enugu-Ezike in Igboeze North LGA of Enugu state as well as Kogi natives.
“The driver loaded from Ebonyi state en route to Abuja when it happened,” a brother of one of the kidnapped persons said. “She has been calling me since yesterday. She said they demanded N5m ransom. I don’t know what to do. She asked me to be contacting our relatives to save her.”
Investigations by our correspondent show that the captives had been asked to be contacting their relatives to save them.
About three of the passengers were said to have escaped during the attack, although their whereabouts remain unknown.
A wife of one of the victims, on condition of anonymity, said, “I gathered that they left Ebonyi a little late. They got to Nsukka around 3pm. I saw that bus. It belongs to Bright Mass Transit. They might have been kidnapped around 6pm. My husband called me in the morning today, and called again this evening. He was speaking English. I believe his calls are being monitored. I beg them to release him. I am a nursing mother.”
It was gathered that police authorities have been contacted, and efforts are on to rescue the victims.
