Shooters on Friday evening snatched a speaker of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Dr. Femi Omisore, on his approach to go to a burial service at Oye Ekiti in Ekiti State.
Our reporter assembled on Sunday that Omisore, a teacher at the Department of Environmental Design Management of OAU, was kidnapped in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on his approach to go to the function.
His captors, why should said be furnished with weapons, were said to have trailed him for some time and his driver attempted everything he could to abstain from being overwhelmed by the hooligans.
On getting up to speed with him, the gangsters were said to have slaughtered the driver out of outrage and constrained Omisore out of his auto before he was taken away to an obscure spot.
The shooters, it was more distant assembled, discharged a few shots at the petrol tank of the instructor's auto and guaranteed that the auto burst into flames before they cleared out the scene.
The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, OAU section, Dr. Caleb Aborisade, affirmed the episode to our reporter on the phone.
Aborisade said, "By data I assembled from his family, Dr. Femi Omisore was seized on Friday evening. He was trying for a burial service function in Oye Ekiti.
"I learnt that an individual from his specialty was covering his dad in Oye Ekiti and he was going there when he was grabbed.
"The hijackers utilize his phone to call his wife early today ( Sunday) and they requested N70 million payoff.
"We are not legislators, we are running our union with stipends from our individuals and where do they anticipate that us will get such sum."
He spoke to Omsiore's abductor to discharge the teacher, saying the family was not rich and couldn't bear to pay such an enormous measure of cash.
The kidnapping was likewise affirmed to our journalist on the phone by the Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree section, Mr. Dotun Omisore, who is a nephew of the kidnapped instructor.
The ASUP director communicated concern at the way instructors and individuals from their families were getting to be focuses of kidnapping.
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