The ugly business of kidnapping is battering Ekiti state at the moment with two kidnaps in one week. The first incidence had Dr. Leo Adegun, former Chief Medical Director of EKSUTH, and his wife kidnapped, last week. They were taken to an unknown destination. The second is the kidnap of Dr. Femi Omisore.
An unconfirmed story have it that those who kidnapped Dr. Leo Adegun later discovered that the woman kidnapped with him is his wife. The kidnappers again discovered that there was no way to get any envisaged money from the couple by keeping the two of them with them.
The story have it further that the kidnappers therefore had to release Dr. Adegun to go and source for money while still keeping his wife with them. Dr. Leo Adegun is an indigene of Oye-Ekiti.
Also, Punch newspaper carried a story that gunmen on Friday evening abducted a lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Dr. Femi Omisore, on his way to attend a funeral at Oye Ekiti in Ekiti State.
Punch correspondent gathered on Sunday that Omisore, a lecturer at the Department of Environmental Design Management of OAU, was abducted in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on his way to attend the ceremony.
His captors, who were said to be armed with guns, were said to have trailed him for a while and his driver tried all he could to avoid being overtaken by the hoodlums.
On catching up with him, the hoodlums were said to have killed the driver out of anger and forced Omisore out of his car before he was taken away to an unknown place.
The gunmen, it was farther gathered, fired several shots at the petrol tank of the lecturer’s car and ensured that the car caught fire before they left the scene.
The paper reports that the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, OAU chapter, Dr. Caleb Aborisade, confirmed the incident to its correspondent on the telephone.
Aborisade said, “According to the information I gathered from his family, Dr. Femi Omisore was kidnapped on Friday evening. He was going for a funeral ceremony in Oye Ekiti.
“I learnt that a member of his department was burying his father in Oye Ekiti and he was traveling there when he was kidnapped.
“The kidnappers use his telephone to call his wife this morning (Sunday) and they demanded N70 million ransom.