Kidnappers of corps members demand N100m ransom



NAN

June 9, 2011 03:46PM
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Kidnappers of five members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Rivers State are demanding a ransom of N100 million from family members, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

The corps members, a female and four males, were kidnapped on Wednesday at Odomanya Community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state, while they were on their way to inspect a school library project they constructed as their Community Development Service (CDS) of the NYSC.

Ben Esan, the public relations officer of the NYSC, told NAN on Thursday in Port Harcourt that the abductors have already contacted parents of the victims and are demanding a ransom of N100 million.

Mr Esan also said the kidnappers equally spoke with the NYSC liaison officer in Ikwerre making a similar demand.

It will be recalled that a similar incident occurred in Omuma Local Government Area of the state during the INEC voters’ registration that took place in January.

He said that the names of the abducted corps member’s are yet to be made public, but that they are members of 2011 batch ‘A’ and ‘B’.

The search is on

Mr Esan, who described the act as evil, said that the NYSC investigation team has been sent to the area to ascertain the circumstance surrounding the incident.

He, however, called on the state government, security agencies and members of the community to quickly intervene in order to free the victims and arrest the perpetrators.

Meanwhile, a combined team of security agencies made up of the police and the army on Thursday started searching for the abducted corps members.

The Rivers Commissioner of Police, Suleiman Abba, told NAN in Port Harcourt that the police, the State Security Service (SSS) and the army have started searching for the missing corps members.

“We (the security team) worked all through last night and we will continue the search until we rescue them.

All hands are on deck and all efforts are on to rescue the corps members and arrest the culprits,” he said.

Mr Abba urged the people to give the police useful information that would lead to the rescue of the corps members and arrest of the criminals.

“All our personnel are out on the field searching for the corps members and nothing must happen to them,” he said.

NAN
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Obviously, we can not protect these corpers so why not just scrap the program for now?

kidnapping corpers? wow

This is getting really annoying? Do they know what a N100m is?thats outrageous and why are they making ransome demands on the parents,thought the govt. would have been a bit rational.
What message are they passing across.
All this rubbish must stop

100 million from corpers, these people are bigger in stupidity, extremely small in wisdom.

Corpers serving in the SS and SE should now know that they are going to be targets, if the government can crack down on these kidnappers, they can nip it in the bud, if not, omo this is going to be a new branch of the kidnapping industry.

who would pay such money jokers

they better start thinking of an alternative way of making money or better still reduce the money to 1 million each

u think[b] mama sunday[/b] go pay 100 million,.,., funny people

Obviously the North and SS/SEastern Nigeria is not the best region for NYSC right now.

North - Human suya

SS/SEast - Human ransom

Haba gurlie, thats no wise saying.

Is there a reason why I'm being stalked by you?

What is wrong with this country sef north -killing of corpers se/ss-kidnaping of corpers and sw-raping of corpers, my children will never go through this stupid nysc

Ileke-IdI:

Obviously the North and SS/SEastern Nigeria is not the best region for NYSC right now.

North - Human suya

SS/SEast - Human ransom

u forgot the oba raping corper in SW or am i wrong

Odunnu:

Haba gurlie, thats no wise saying.

All your posts in nairaland shows that you are well raised up by your parents. Those girls who are poorly raised should learn from you, [i]Nwada Di nma.

None of my immediate family will ever serve in iboland,Niger delta or the whole of the north because these areas harbour dangerous people.

alj harem:

u forgot the oba despoiling corper in SW or am i wrong

One Oba despoils one. . . .not justifying anything.
That has happened in other regions.
But kidnapping/killing is specified to those two regions.

SW'ners have suffered. They need to amend or modify the rules embodying NYSC before I go in for mines. Lagos is it for me sha. The North/East is not for me at all.  

I might make an exception for Calabar sha. Beautiful city beautiful people

Ileke-IdI:

Is there a reason why I'm being stalked by you?

i'll take this as a joke. You met me on this thread.

Ileke-IdI:

One Oba despoils one. . . .not justifying anything.
That has happened in other regions.
But kidnapping/killing is specified to those two regions.

SW'ners have suffered. They need to amend or modify the rules embodying NYSC before I go in for mines. Lagos is it for me sha. The North/East is not for me at all.  

I might make an exception for Calabar sha. Beautiful city beautiful people

Mind you, Calabar is in the South south where the recent kidnapping took place. Forget NYSC, no where is safe for you considering  the hatred you preach in the web.

Next time kidnap those corrupt politicians children.
Sure ain't getting 100 million.

Ileke-IdI:

Obviously the North and SS/SEastern Nigeria is not the best region for NYSC right now.

North - Human suya

SS/SEast - Human ransom

Are you implying SW is the safest?

these kidnappers were once corpers.

when i studied that the corpers kidnapped are nobody's children and they were serving in rural areas,i just concluded that these corpers organised their own kidnap. Its not hard to see that Batch has come to an end and they need to raise some capital for business cos jobs as we all know are not forthcoming. But what gave them was the ridiculous sum they placed on their heads,no Nigerian govt will pay even a small fraction of that to free common man's children

Ileke-IdI:

Obviously the North and SS/SEastern Nigeria is not the best region for NYSC right now.

North - Human suya

SS/SEast - Human ransom

and this is what female corpers suffer in the west, from the western monarchs,
www.naijarules.com/vb/news-current-affairs-politics/40134-osun-monarch-rapes-youth-corp-member.html

100m divide by 5 = 20m. I think d ransome shld be paid directly to d parents of d corpers. SMH Naija forward ever, backward forever

What do you expect when uncle Jona was doling out #10 mil. for dead corps members rather than fish out their killers;that presupposes that the F.G will pay any amount for live ones.

donspony:

Next time kidnap those corrupt politicians children.
Sure ain't getting 100 million.


Are you implying SW is the safest?

Not the safest, but in relative to the North and the East, SW is the safest.

gidson12:

and this is what female corpers suffer in the west, from the western monarchs,
www.naijarules.com/vb/news-current-affairs-politics/40134-osun-monarch-despoils-youth-corp-member.html

clap for yourself

Ileke-IdI:

One Oba despoils one. . . .not justifying anything.
That has happened in other regions.
But kidnapping/killing is specified to those two regions.

SW'ners have suffered. They need to amend or modify the rules embodying NYSC before I go in for mines. Lagos is it for me sha. The North/East is not for me at all.  

I might make an exception for Calabar sha. Beautiful city beautiful people

We should call for Corpers to be withdrawn from the SS

Good lord save our children

oviously we now believe old men are d leaders of tomorrow in dis part of d world.i believe dis nysc rubbish should have being scrapped long time ago.the old ones in govt are killing d educated youths gradually with dis archaic programme.

Andre Uweh:

Mind you, Calabar is in the South south where the recent kidnapping took place. Forget NYSC, no where is safe for you considering  the hatred you preach in the web.

This is what she said.

Ileke-IdI:

I might make an exception for Calabar sha. Beautiful city beautiful people

So Mr 'Andre Uweh', is it that at your age you do not know the meaning of the word 'exception'?

After the killings of the Corps members in the North during the last elections, what the Government ought to have done was to go on a massive sensitization campaign to re-establish the respect for corps members in the hearts and minds of the general populace.

Instead this Government set up a 'probe panel'.

Hopefully one day we'll have a Government that focuses on pro-active measures instead of the usual reactive bullcrap.

Well I see that all the post election northern 'ABOKI' bashers have nothing to say on this since it happened in their backyard. This thread would have reached 80 pages had the kidnapping occured in the north. Hypocrits all.

WTH is dis country turning into.last tym dey were killin,nao its kidnapping n ransom!we definitely dnt av a govt.or rather dey ve gon insane.we rili nid a major reorientation cos d future is doomed if dis gets out of hand.

Omg! I hope Gej doesnt wait till they are killed so that he can get away with the cheaper N5million compensation option, since we have been made to understand that is what our precious corpers lives are worth. But its not fair o, these kidnappers should know the prevailing market value na!
Pls SCRAP THIS USELESS STUFF AND SAVE PARENTS THESE HEARTACHES ALREADY!