{"id":11857,"date":"2013-04-08T07:01:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T06:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=11857"},"modified":"2013-04-08T07:01:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T06:01:36","slug":"kidnappers-demands-n50-million-ransom-to-release-former-council-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/kidnappers-demands-n50-million-ransom-to-release-former-council-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnappers  Demands N50 million Ransom To release Former Council Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maiduguri the Borno state capital is gradually witnessing another dangerous trend of Crime despite attacks by Boko Haram group as unidentified gunmen\u00a0 kidnapped a former Council Chairman threatening to kill him if the state government fails to pay N50 million ransom .<\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Mustapha Gadobe, ex- chairman of Abadam local council of Borno state, was on Friday kidnapped by unknown gunmen pointblankews.com gathered from security Operatives.<\/p>\n<p>Gadobe was said to have been kidnapped\u00a0 near a Maiduguri suburb called Wadiya and was hurriedly bundled into\u00a0 his Toyota FJ Cruiser and driven to unknown destination.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the Borno state government House\u00a0 confirmed to Pointblanknews.com that a serving member of Borno state house of Assembly is currently mediating\u00a0 between the kidnappers and Borno state government.<\/p>\n<p>A top political appointee revealed\u00a0 that the abductors threatened to terminate the life of their hostage when the said mediator offered a N3 million cash payment as against the N50 million earlier demanded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We learnt that the family members of the former council chairman and the mediator had on Saturday offered to pay N3 million an offer that was said to have vexed the kidnappers who vowed to kill Gadobe should such ridiculous amount be mentioned again&#8217;, said the source.<\/p>\n<p>It was also\u00a0 learnt\u00a0 that another offer of N10 million was yesterday offered to the abductors which was still turned down.<\/p>\n<p>A Senior security personnel\u00a0 of the State Security Services\u00a0 (SSS) confirmed the abduction to pointblanknews.com\u00a0 on phone but declined details of steps being taken to rescue Gadobe.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maiduguri the Borno state capital is gradually witnessing another dangerous trend of Crime despite attacks by Boko Haram group as unidentified gunmen\u00a0 kidnapped a former Council Chairman threatening to kill&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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