Kehinde Bamigbetan
There
are indications that the Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development
Authority, Kehinde Bamigbetan, who was kidnapped last Monday, might have
been released on Saturday.
Although his abductors had reportedly demanded $1m (about N155m), it was not clear if ransom was paid to secure his release.
An online news portal, Premium Times, reports that the Head of Information Unit of the council, Mr. Rabiu Hassan, confirmed the release.
The council chairman was kidnapped near his house in Ejigbo around 11p.m.
When contacted, the acting Police Public
Relations Officer, Damascus Ozoani, said he was not aware that
Bamgbetan had been rereleased.
When our correspondent contacted Hassan for more confirmation, his phone was switched off.
Also, a local government chairman in the state, who preferred anonymity, said he was not sure if Bamigbetan had been released.
“What we heard was that he had been
released but as I am talking to you, nobody is sure. We are yet to see
anybody to confirm that he or she had seen him,” he said.
Another LG chairman, who also did not
want his name to be mentioned, said, “What I heard was that he had been
released and had contacted his family members. But I have not been able
to get in touch with him.”
Bamigbetan, a former Chief Press
Secretary to former Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos, was kidnapped while
being driven home by his driver.
The kidnappers reportedly shot into the
air around 11pm as Bamigbetan was being driven into his street in
Ejigbo. The kidnappers beat his driver before taking the council boss
away.
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