Reports filtered in late on Friday that two staff members and three
pupils of the Nigerian Turkish International College, Isheri, Ogun State, off
Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway, have been kidnapped.
Efforts to reach the school administrators for comments proved abortive
as the phone number of the school’s media representative, Cema Yigit, was
switched off around 11pm.
When Punch got through to the state Police Command, the spokesperson,
Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident, stating that the staff members, who
are Turkish nationals and the schoolchildren were abducted on Friday evening.
He said, “I just called the division which covers the area and it is
true. According to the information at my disposal, the victims were abducted at
gunpoint on the school premises. We do not know yet if some Nigerian staff
members were among those kidnapped.
“The Commissioner of Police, Ogun State Command, has deployed the
anti-kidnapping unit and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad as well as other police
operatives in the area.
“Even the area commander of Sagamu and all the divisional police officers
of surrounding areas are on the ground. He has directed that the kidnapped
victims must be rescued unhurt.”
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