Unknown gunmen have kidnapped a 71-year-old farmer, Bamidele Mathew, popularly generally known as Dele Photo, and his 18-year-old son in Odo-Owa, Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State.
LEADERSHIP gathered that the victims have been kidnapped on Tuesday alongside the Idofin-Igbana axis of Odo-Owa neighborhood whereas on their strategy to the farm.
Another son of the farmer, who narrowly escaped abduction, informed LEADERSHIP that the gunmen emerged from the bush in massive numbers, attacked them at gunpoint and whisked away the aged farmer and his son.
Efforts by the police and native vigilantes to find the abductors’ hideout and rescue the victims have thus far been unsuccessful.
A daughter-in-law of the farmer mentioned the abductors had contacted the household and demanded a ransom of ₦20 million for the discharge of the victims.
She appealed to the native, state and federal governments, in addition to public-spirited Nigerians, to help the household in securing the secure launch of the kidnapped farmer and his son.
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