Amaechi’s mother, Appolonia kidnapped as gunmen demand N20m ransom
Amaechi is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of TheNiche Newspapers.Madam Appolonia, a retired teacher, was abducted on Tuesday, March 3.
“That my mother had just finished dinner and was in the living room watching television when three men with guns and faces covered came in and went straight after her. Asked who was at home during the attack, the journalist replied: “My younger brother’s wife, my young cousin in SS3, among those to sit for WAEC this year. You know the way village setting is, so my cousin, a school principal was around.”
“It was the phone they used in calling me the following day that they wanted to talk to me. I said okay. They confirmed that they were kidnappers and have my mother.
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