Kidnappers of the chairman of Ejigbo Local Council, Kehinde Bamigbetan,\u00a0 are\u00a0 demanding\u00a0 a whopping $1miilion, about N160 million ransome before they will release him.<\/p>\n
It was gathered\u00a0 that\u00a0 the kidnapped chairman was allowed to speak to his wife\u00a0 at about 4am by his captors.<\/p>\n
Bamigbetan reportedly informed his wife, Fatima, that his captors are demanding for $1million which must be paid quickly.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0 family was\u00a0 warned\u00a0 that if they dared inform the police the victim could be murdered.
\nFormer Chief Press Secretary to former Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Bamigbetan, was monday night abducted by unknown gunmen at Ejigbo in Lagos.<\/p>\n
He was said to have been abducted by four gunmen on his way home at about 11:00pm , as he was about entering Ona Iwa Mimo Street, Ori Oke before Egbe Bridge at Ejigbo, where his house is located.
\nHe was with his driver, Biodun Olayiwola, in his black Ford Everest Jeep with special registration number KOK, without any police orderly, as the chairman was never known to use police escorts since assumption of office.
\nThe gunmen were said to have released several gun shots into the air to scare away residents before catching up with Bamigbetan and his driver whose four-wheel drive got stuck in the mud in a bid to escape from the assailants.
\nBamigbetan, was later whisked away by the gunmen.<\/p>\n
Bamigbetan\u2019s driver, Olayiwola, who escaped with minor bruises told said\u00a0\u00a0 he and his boss were attacked by three armed men while another member of the gang was waiting in the assailants car in an attack that barely lasted three minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kidnappers of the chairman of Ejigbo Local Council, Kehinde Bamigbetan,\u00a0 are\u00a0 demanding\u00a0 a whopping $1miilion, about N160 million ransome before they will release him. It was gathered\u00a0 that\u00a0 the kidnapped…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n