Despite paying N7 million ransom to secure his release, families of Shola Ojebola, a Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) staff, said bandits have killed their man.
Ojebola, 47, was recently promoted to a manager at the FIRS’ Medium & Small Tax Office in Lugbe, sources said.
The promotion was said to have come when Mr Ojebola was in the bandits’ camp after he was kidnapped along Abuja-Kaduna Highway about three weeks ago.
“He was promoted to the post of a manager while in their camp,” said a family source. It was also learnt that the police and State Security Service (SSS) were involved in the ransom after the bandits demanded N7 million.
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The Gazette could not immediately reach the spokesperson for the police in Abuja, Josephine Adeh, to confirm their role in the matter.
Over the past year, the Abuja-Kaduna Highway has become a danger zone with massive kidnappings and killings of travellers.
Among a series of attacks on the highway, The Gazette had reported that a traveller was killed while many were abducted on November 11. The ambush took place near Gadar Malam Mamman, a few kilometres to the highway’s most dangerous kidnapping spot, Rijana.
Also, a Nigerian Army colonel SB Onifade was abducted by bandits on the same road after running into an ambush. Onifade was on a road trip at about 3:00 a.m. on September 27 when he was abducted
