CITIZENS COMPASS— One of the kidnapped National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members sent a last minute message to her family platform before their assailants struck yesterday.
Her mother, Mrs Alimot Akande disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Ibadan, Oyo State shortly after the kidnap.
According to the distraught mother, her daughter sent a shocking message, “kidnappers!” to the family platforms since some of them shared their locations on the family platforms.
Akande said for a while, calls to her daughter’s cell phone was active for a while until it ceased to be active.
The Ibadan-based woman cried out to the government to secure the release of the abductees.
Citizens Compass reported that about 20 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), were abducted yesterday, on their way to Abia State.
It was learnt that the prospective NYSC members left Ibadan on Wednesday and were kidnapped between Anambra and Abia States in the early hours of Thursday.
According to her: “I am Mrs Alimot Akande. I am the parent of one of the victims. The prospective corps members boarded a bus belonging to a commercial transport company in the Sango area for the long journey to Abia State.
“I appeal to the Federal Government, the NYSC, the police and other security agencies to rescue my daughter and the others unhurt.”
Reports had it that the passengers had a stopover on Wednesday night in Onitsha at about 10 p.m., and the journey continued on Thursday morning before she quickly dropped a message that simply said, ‘kidnappers!’ indicating that the bus had been attacked by suspected armed kidnappers.
