Travellers In Fear As Kidnappers Target Them Daily Along Abuja-Lokoja Road

…Inside the strategy that resulted in abductions, payments by many

Travellers along Lokoja to Abuja road now live in great fear.

They have become daily target for kidnappers operating along this route, societynowng.com gathered.

According to information pieced together by societynowng.com many have been abducted while in transit and made payments to secure their freedom.

Sources confirmed the abductions are carried out in form of outright assault on moving or broken down vehicles or through decoy of armed robbery operation.
According to investigations made the armed robbery pretext is usually used for high number passengers buses.

Disclosed a victim ”an armed robbery attempt would be made on the commercial buses and passengers would scatter into the bush to escape only fall into the waiting arms of kidnappers”

According to information available to societynowng.com the abductors don’t make out of the world ransom demands.

”They keep it within the region of N250,000..N500,000..N750,000 and maybe N1m depending on their assessments of the passengers concern” a source stated.

A victim who confirmed the story via third party disclosed payment of N500,000 to secure his freedom after about a week in custody.

Societynowng.com gathered the big numbers ransom are reserved for private vehicle owners depending on the make of the car and estimation of the value of occupants.

Societynowng.com gathered the ransoms of passengers taken from commercial vehicles appeared kept at ”affordable level” because of the numbers of victims involved, the space to quarter them and the need to constantly move them.

”They are working more on the turn over…need to make as much as possible with limited risk ” societynowng.com.

Societynowng.com gathered the fact that most of the victims just want to get out of the kidnappers clutches and get family to raise the money without involving security operatives has emboldened the perpetrators.

Societynowng.com gathered the situation has degenerated to the point that the kidnappers have transformed surrounding towns into their base.

”Virtually the whole of Kogi state has become the den of kidnappers…people now live in fear of abductions daily in that part…both visitors and residents” a source stated emphatically.

Added revelations have it the abductors use the opportunity to unleash mayhem on residents of the areas.

According to information available to societynowng.com the kidnappers activities on travellers along the Abuja Lokoja route and residents of the towns have turned mind boggling.

The ploy used on residents on the town is said to lay in targetting and abducting the elderly with children believed to able to pay earmarked ransom.

”They go in and abduct the elderly in their homes…it is really saddening what is happening to senior citizens in that part of town” a source claimed.

Recently reports that labels Kogi state as the headquarters of kidnappers hit town.

Here is a link to the write up that details mind numbing exploits of the criminal elements making life hard for visitors and residents in that part of the world –

http://societynowng.com/Kidnappers-Exploits-In-State-Turn-Kogi-East-Unofficial-Capital-For-Kidnapping-In-Nigeria