Nigeria: Kidnappers release council boss

Chairman, Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Kehinde Bamigbetan has been released by his captors.

Kehinde Bamigbetan

P.M.NEWS gathered that he was released Saturday night by the kidnappers, who had earlier demanded for $1 million to be paid before his release.

He returned home to his family around 11 p.m Saturday night.

It was not clear how much ransom was paid to the kidnappers to effect the release, but sources said each of the 20 Local Government and 37 LCDA contributed money.

Bamigbetan was kidnapped on Monday night. He was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen at about 11p.m. while he was about to enter his street, Ona Iwa Mimo, Ori-Oke near Egbe bridge in Ejigbo.

He was with his driver, Abiodun Olayiwola, in his black SUV with customised registration number Lagos KOK when the gunmen waylaid him.

The council boss was said to be on his way home from an official assignment when the incident occurred. The matter has been reported at Ejigbo Police Station. His SUV was badly damaged by an electric pole which stopped it while the driver tried to escape from the gunmen.

His driver, Olayiwola, who managed to escape with bruises all over his body, said that they were ambushed by at least four gunmen a few metres away from bamigbetan’s house.