“At 5:30a.m. on Sunday, May 3, my abducted twin kids were released to me beside a bush after eight days in an unknown land.”
The twins were picked near the bush around Mufutau Laninhun College of Education area on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway after the Akeugbagold family had paid ransom running into millions of naira. From an initial request of 100,000 pounds , the kidnappers and the family had been engaged in negotiations and pleadings over the course of the past one week until the kidnappers accepted a reduced sum offered by the family.
He wrote: “Alhamudulilaih! At 5:30a.m. on Sunday, May 3, my abducted twin kids were released to me beside a bush after eight days in an unknown land. Thank you all for your prayers and support. My treasure dropped in the water but God located it and brought it back to me.” “They were released unhurt. We have taken them for tests in the hospital and they were confirmed fine. We were only told to allow them to rest and give attention to their nutrition. They initially requested for the ransom of 100,000 pounds and we kept begging them on daily basis to come down on their requested sum until we gave them what we could afford.
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