A nursing mother and broadcaster with the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, Akure, Ondo State, Mrs Olubunmi Oke, who was kidnapped last Thursday has been released by her abductors.

This, however, was possible after her family coughed out N1 million ransom to the kidnappers who dropped her along the Benin Ore Expressway at about 11 p.m, Saturday.
Mrs Olubunmi Oke

Mrs Olubunmi Oke

Bunmi, as she is fondly called by her colleagues, has since re-united with her banker husband and six-month-old baby girl.

She has, however, been barred from granting interviews on her ordeal in the hands of her captors.

But findings by Vanguard revealed that she was driven to one of the Niger Delta states and kept in the creeks by her kidnappers.

Her friends who volunteered information said she was not maltreated by the kidnappers who also sympathised with her that she is a nursing mother.

Investigations had it that the kidnappers initially requested N30 million as ransom but later went down to N6 million and eventually settled for N1 million.

Vanguard gathered that they settled for N1 million following appeals from the family of the nursing mother that the baby had been deprived of breast feeding for three days.

It was learnt that during the negotiation, the kidnappers heard the cry of the baby and were moved.

The kidnappers, according to investigation, asked the husband of the journalist to bring the ransom to Owo and when he got there, he was asked to return to Akure.

The husband was later called about 30minutes after to go to Ore where they said he would find his wife.

Some security personnel and the husband later went for her only to be told by Bunmi that she was dropped in the bush and was helped by a truck driver to the expressway.
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