Aminat Lawal, the sister of the National Youth Service Corps member, Rofiat Lawal, currently in kidnappers’ den has claimed that Rofiat was handed over to the abductors by the driver conveying them.
Recall that Rofiat was abducted while traveling along the Benin-Ore Expressway on Tuesday, Feb. 25.
She was returning to her Place of Primary Assignment in Oyo State from her base in Benin when the incident happened.
Aminat told the Punch that her sister narrated that the driver conveying them from Benin stopped at Ore where the kidnappers came out from a nearby bush and captured them while the driver zoomed off.
Aminat said the kidnappers later contacted Rofiat’s family, asking for N25m ransom. She said the family pleaded with them to lower it as they could not afford it.
She said after several back and forth, the kidnappers lowered the demand to N5m.
“She contacted us on Tuesday to tell us that she was kidnapped and she said that the driver of the car she boarded was the one who dropped them at the spot where she was kidnapped alongside other passengers.
“When we spoke with the kidnappers, they asked us to bring N25m and we told them that we did not have such money. She is the one who sponsored herself in school. They have reduced the ransom to N5m.”
The victim’s friend, identified as Agbakwara on Facebook, stated that Rofiat struggled all her life, supporting herself through university by working at the Dufil company in Benin because her parents are indigent.
The family has resorted to crowdfunding to raise the ransom as requested by the abductors.
