Kidnappers of five pupils and four staff of the Apostolic Faith Church Primary and Secondary School in Emure, headquarter of Emure Council of Ekiti State have reportedly reduced their demand from N100m to N15million. The school bus conveying the pupils and their teachers, including the driver, was ambushed by the gunmen suspected to be kidnappers at about 6.00 p.m. on Monday, along Eporo-Ekiti road, a boundary between Ondo and Ekiti State.
The kidnappers later reached out to the families of the victims and demanded a ransom of N100m for the release of their captives. However, speaking with newsmen on the telephone, yesterday, one of the relatives of abductees, who didn’t want to be mentioned, said the ransom was reduced by the kidnappers after appeals