Five members of the National Youth Service Corps who were kidnapped by unknown bandits on their way to Rivers and Akwa Ibom states have been rescued by the men of Nigerian police in Imo State.
The youths were travelling to their orientation camps in the two states before they were taken host of by some gunmen.
It was learned that two other passengers on the bus conveying the corps members were also kidnapped.
The victims were kidnapped on the Owerri-Port Harcourt Expressway and taken to the Umuapu forest in the Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State on Wednesday.
It was gathered that the fresh graduates and the other victims were travelling from Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to Rivers and Akwa Ibom states where they were billed to undertake their three-week NYSC orientation.
Dasuki Galadanchi, the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Imo State Police Command, while briefing journalists after the victims were rescued by the police, said the kidnappers established contact with the families of the corps members and demanded N5m ransom.
The Imo Police Commissioner 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.
