Kidnappers of Mrs. Olufunke Olatubora, the octogenarian mother of Remi Olatubora, who is the immediate past Commissioner for Education in Ondo State, have demanded N50m ransom before they could set the aged woman free.
The 80-year-old woman was on Sunday morning kidnapped by gunmen at her Iyansan country home in the riverside community of Irele Local Government of the state.
Our correspondent learnt on Tuesday that the kidnappers had started negotiating with the family.
A family source said, “The kidnappers had started discussing with the family. The amount they are demanding for is too much
“There is no way we can raise such a huge sum now. We are after the wellbeing of our mother. They should be humane enough to free her”
The former commissioner, who spoke on telephone with our correspondent on Tuesday, expressed the confidence that his mother would regain her freedom soon.
He did not comment on whether he had established contacts with the kidnappers or about any demand for ransom.
“We are believing in God that they will release her soon,” he said.
Olatubora, a lawyer, was also in the legal team that defended Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s suit at the just concluded Ondo Election Petitions Tribunal.
Eyewitnesses said the hoodlums, numbering about six, arrived the woman’s residence in a speed boat and went straight to her room while she was fast asleep around 1.00am.
The faint wailings of the aged woman, the source added, woke up the younger wife of her husband, who was also sleeping in another room.
Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer, Ondo State Police Command, Mr. Wole Ogodo, has reassured the Olatubora family that the security agents would soon secure the release of their aged mother.
Ogodo told journalists in Akure that detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department had started investigating the case.
via nigerianeye
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