[Breaking News] Five NYSC Corps Members Kidnapped On Way To Camp Akwa Ibom And Rivers States.

Five members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) were on Wednesday kidnapped by some gunmen on their way to their orientation camps in Akwa Ibom and Rivers states.

Also kidnapped were two other passengers on the bus conveying the corps members.

The victims were travelling from Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to Rivers and Akwa Ibom states where the fresh graduates were billed to undertake their three-week NYSC orientation.

They were kidnapped on the Owerri-Port Harcourt Expressway and taken to the Umuapu forest in the Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State.

According to the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Imo State Police Command, Dasuki Galadanchi, who briefed journalists after the victims were rescued by the police, the kidnappers established contact with the families of the corps members and demanded N5m ransom.

The CP gave the names of the corps members as Abiola Temitope, Olubisi Adekanmi, Jose Temitayo, Folarin Opeyemi and Shonibare Ademola.

Other victims were identified as Leonard Uzondu and Raymond Ojodahe.

The CP said, “The victims were travelling from Ibadan to Port Harcourt. Five out of the seven of them are prospective corps members. They were on their way to the NYSC orientation camps in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states for the three weeks camping.