Babcock graduate allegedly abducted by friends who wants to extort her family

Justina Anochie, a graduate of Babcock University, has reportedly been kidnapped by her friends who wanted to make money off her family.

According to the reports, the 27-year-old, who rounded up her nursing course in May and graduated this June, was abducted on Sunday.

The Ogun State Police Command have arrested a University of Lagos undergraduate who has reportedly been linked to the kidnap. She is currently helping the police with investigations.

Speaking with the press, Anochie’s sister Judith Nze, said the kidnappers originally requested N10 million and later asked for N5 million. They refused the family’s offer of N300,000 and threathened to kill the her if their demands are not met.

Here’s what she said:

“[Anochie] has finished her programme in the school and was just waiting for some clearance. I learnt that the place she stays is isolated.

She was taken on Sunday and since then we have all lost our peace. I have stopped going to the office because I can’t concentrate.

Initially, we thought it was a joke until the kidnappers contacted us and demanded N10m as ransom. They later reduced it to N5m.

They have refused the N300,000 we offered them, insisting that they would kill her if we don’t pay the money.

They also said we must withdraw the case from the police as a condition for her release.

My mother spoke with her this morning (Thursday) and she did not sound good. We are afraid they might harm her.

We are just appealing to them to release her.”

Confirming the kidnap case to the press, a police source said that Anochie was kidnapped with the help of an ‘insider’, the female Unilag graduate.

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