Kidnappers threaten to kill newborn baby, mother, 2 sisters
... if N50m is not paid The family of a pregnant housewife that gave birth in captivity, the new baby and her two sisters in Kaduna State, has been given 48hrs ultimatum to pay N50 million ransom by bandits or receive their corpses. The family has begged the government and good spirited Nigerians to help them secure the release of their loved ones, saying so far, they have been only able to raise N6.5 million. They told journalists in Kaduna, yesterday, that although they offered the bandits the said N6.5 million, “it was vehemently rejected by the bandits.” Speaking to journalists, a brother of the kidnapped victims, Kabir Yusuf, said he had begged the bandits and told them that the family had sold everything they had in order to raise N6.5 million but the bandits rejected it. “One of my sisters, Zainab, who was heavily pregnant when they were kidnapped, gave birth in captivity without recourse to medical or human care for both mother and child. They were subjected to the harsh weathe...