Kidnappers Demand 60 million Naira for Secondary School Girls (MUST READ)

Kidnappers Demand 60 million Naira for Secondary School Girls (MUST READ)

The Kidnappers Demand 60 million Naira. Gunmen on Monday night around 9.00p.m. struck at a hostel of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Agunfoye Lugbusi, Ikorodu, kidnapping three girls in the process.

The gunmen, numbering over 10, were suspected to be pipeline vandals. They had arrived the school in a van, broke the fence to gain entrance before whisking the girls away.

Immediately the news broke yesterday morning, the school founded on October 18, 1996 by the then Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, the late Revd. Dr. Joseph Abiodun Adetiloye, became a cynosure of sort, attracting concerned parents of the students, citizens, security officials and their paraphernalia in large numbers to the area.

Parents of the children of the seminary school and some top officials of the Anglican Communion had besieged the school early in the morning, all wearing worried looks. Shock and disbelief were visibly written on their wrinkled brow as they searched everywhere for clues and answers to their unspoken queries.

Although the identities of the three girls were not disclosed for security reasons, the Lagos State Police Command has said they are on the trail of the armed men. The police spokesperson, Dolapo Badmus, said the police are on top of the situation. “We are working on their rescue. There is nothing new yet, but we are closing up on them and we are seriously working on their recovery and investigating how the incident occurred, ‎” she said.

By midday, as more crowd milled round the school premises, the parents, some with broken voices and teary eyes, banded together at the school’s auditorium to hold frenetic prayer sessions for the safe return of the children. They were, however, comforted by leaders of the Anglican Communion, who expressed the hope that the pupils would be rescued unhurt.

The School is a co-educational secondary institution of the Lagos Anglican Dioceses and was named after late Revd. Thomas Babington Macaulay, who was the founder of C.M.S. Grammar School, Bariga, Lagos in 1859.

The heightened trepidation that enveloped the scene was lessened when senior police officials arrived the school with military men to inspect the premises, including the broken fence reportedly used by the abductors.

This was followed by a helicopter surveillance of the school vicinity, conducted on the orders of the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Fatai Owoseni, and an Assistant Inspector-General, B. Hassan, who were physically at the premises to monitor unfolding events.

They were immediately ushered into the principal’s office where a close-door meeting was held with school officials, church leaders and some parents of the pupils. Mum was the watchword when the meeting ended as reporters harangued a few of those who attended for update.

 Many of the parents, however, accused the school authorities of not providing adequate security within the boarding area. An angry parent, who refused to give her name, said she would not allow her daughter to sleep in the school’s hostel today (yesterday).

There were indications yesterday that the kidnappers who stormed Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos, Monday night, abducting three Senior Secondary School female students have reduced the ransom to N20 million per student.

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