₦airaland Forum

Please this is a serious topic so I would appreciate if we can be matured here and only make contributions that could proffer solutions to the topic being discussed. This topic could go along way in not just helping me but someone else out there who might be in the same situation I am currently in.

I apologize if this seems like a lengthy write up.

Hi house, I have a question concerning the threat of kidnapping and I would really appreciate it if the legal and security experts in the house can offer some advise and course of action regarding this situation. So sometime early last year, I traveled to Europe to further my studies and to work, basically to have a better life, raise some capital and help my aged parents who are in the rural area. I made sure no one knew about my plans of traveling except my immediate family (as I dey fear my village people lol ), however some how the news got out that I had traveled abroad and then people in the community had this misconception that I was doing well since I had left the country when actually this was far from the truth. Anyway sometime last year, for security reasons and due to the rainy season, My siblings and I decided to contribute some money to do some renovation for the house so we did a fence and also changed the leaking roofs, little did we know that this small project we embarked on was going to give people the wrong idea that the family had made some money.

Fast forward to a couple days ago and some group of people, actually a family known for engaging in criminal activities threatened my father and right in front of my elder brother as well as witnesses standing by, The head of that family threatened My father that he would go missing and we would pay before we see my father! This is of great concern to me because this criminal family has a brother who is a member of one of the security outfits in Nigeria, so on numerous occasions members of this family have committed crimes and when the police are called, these people get arrested and within 24hrs or less they are released, this has given the family the impression that they are untouchable and has led to them committing criminal acts with reckless abandon.

Now the threat issued against my father has already been submitted to the police and the court , the police where called to the community and the police invited the head of the family to the police station to write a statement and to the surprise of everyone, the family started fighting the armed police officers and resisting arrest, they went as far as threating the police officers that they had connection in the army (luckily all of this was caught on camera by another member of the community ), so far it seems like it is going to be "same of the same". This is not the first time that this family has been accused of something such as cultism and kidnapping so I have good reason to be worried as I don't want any harm to come to my parents and should this threat happen to be actualized and I am asked to pay a ransom I just don't know where I would start. So I would really appreciate it if the legal experts or security experts here on Nairaland can offer some vital advise on how to proceed and ensure that justice is served against those who has threatened to kidnap my father.


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