Student dies, nursing mother missing as kidnappers invade community

A nursing mother, Kehinde Jubril, has been abducted by suspected gunmen who invaded her community in Kwara State.

The abductors, it was gathered, also kidnapped a student of the Kwara State Polytechnic from his house in Abiye area during the daring attack in the town.

The student was said to have died from injuries sustained during that attack in Oketu, Ago-Oja community in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State despite payment of N400,000 ransom.

Daily Trust Saturday gathered that the abductors left the four-month-old child of Mrs Jubril with the elder siblings while the mother was whisked away around 1 am from her husband’s residence along Alhaji Isiaka Oloye Jagun Street penultimate Friday.

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Sources told our correspondent that the abductors targeted Mrs Jubril’s husband, who is said to be cattle dealer and a top official of a cooperative society in the town, and demanded N10 million.

Speaking on the incident, the Baale of Ago-Oja, Malam Daudu Salaudeen Arolu, said the student confronted the kidnappers who were shooting sporadically and was seriously injured in the process.

When contacted on Friday, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), Ajayi Okasanmi, told our correspondent that he was in a meeting and would get back.

He was yet to do so at the time of filing this report and did not pick up several calls made to him thereafter.