Two female students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, have been abducted.
They were abducted Sunday night in front of their hostel around the
Ayetoro campus of the university in the Yewa-North Local Government of the state.
The abducted students, Adeyemo Precious and Oyefule Abiola, are of the departments of Forestry and Wildlife Management and Agricultural Economics respectively.
The abductors have reportedly reached out to the families and demanded a sum of N50m for the release of the students.
The source, however, said the abductors linked up with the relatives of the victims through the students’ phones .
The source said it was the kidnapped students that spoke with their families and not the abductors.
He said, “The kidnappers have not spoken with the families. It was the students that spoke and echoed the demands. We don’t know whether they are Yoruba or Fulani because the families have not heard directly from the abductors.”
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, promised to get back to our correspondent, adding that he was in a meeting.
Yewa North Patriotic Forum has called on Governor Dapo Abiodun to direct the Commissioner of Police to relocate to Yewa-North over the issue of insecurity.
Th group said that Yewa local government had been battling with herders and farmers’ crisis that had reportedly claimed many lives in the last few months.
President of the group, Sanni Omobolaji, in a statement issued on Monday over the kidnapping noted that Ayetoro area has not been enjoying proper policing.
The statement reads in part, “We have not been enjoying good policing in Ayetoro since the former DPO died a few months back. Since then, a new DPO has not been deployed to the area, while the DCO who has been acting in the capacity of DPO has not been cooperative with our people.
“We, however, demand an immediate redeployment of the DCO, else, we might take that as an act of sabotage by the police.”
Also, the state Chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Mr Adeyemi Samson, appealed to Governor Abiodun to ensure security of students in Ogun West.
“Our governor must embark on a fact finding mission now, so as to see things for himself because the security situation in Ogun West is terrible.
“We also beg the commissioner of police to move to Ogun West to restore normalcy in the area.”
Samson also said that if the area was searched effectively, the culprits could still be apprehended and the students released safely.