According to reports, Mrs.
Hamdallah Ettu, wife of a lecturer in the Department of Biology at the Tai
Solarin University of Education, Ijebu Ode, Mr. Gbenga Ettu, who was kidnapped
on April 3, has been released on Tuesday after about five days in the hands of
her abductors.
The report has it that the woman
was kidnapped on her way home from her shop where she sold foodstuffs and daily
needs on April 3 with the kidnappers demanding the sum of N20m as ransom.
A family source told news men
that the mother of five, who is currently in a hospital in Ijebu Ode, was
released by the kidnappers after she went on hunger strike since her kidnap on
Friday.
The source said:
“The kidnappers refused to yield
to the pleas of Mr. Ettu when he told them that he could not afford the ransom
they asked for but they refused to release her threatening to kill her if the
money wasn’t paid”.
“They called on Sunday to tell
him that his wife had fainted since she refused to eat the food she has been
given and hence encouraged him to raise the money as soon as possible.
“But they still held onto her
until she passed out again the second time on Monday.”
The nursing mother was however
released on Tuesday and dropped at Ikangba, in the outskirts of Ijebu Ode....continue
The source said, “Mr. Ettu was
again called on Tuesday night to pick up his wife at Omu-Ijebu by 8pm but after
waiting for close to an hour, and nothing was heard, he had thought it was
another ploy by the kidnappers before he got a call from his wife telling him
that she was at the Obalende Police Station.
“She was then rushed to the
hospital from the station because her state of health was really worrisome.”
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