Kidnappers Release Otun Olubadan’s Twins after Collecting N10m Ransom

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The abducted twins of Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, have been released on Monday night after their kidnappers collected a N10 million ransom.

The kidnappers had earlier reduced the ransom from N40 million to N10 million.

They had originally demanded N100 million to release the five-year-old twins, a boy and a girl.

A source close to the monarch told NewsmakersNG that the ransom was taken to the kidnappers at an undisclosed location in Lagos, yesterday evening.

According to the source, “the first person sent by the monarch to deliver the ransom turned back on the way out of fear. It was the second courier that eventually delivered the money to the abductors. It was thereafter the family was directed to where the twins were rescued”.

The source declined to volunteer further information due to security concerns.

Both Oba Balogun and the Oyo State commissioner of police, Mr. Abiodun Odude, have confirmed the release of the twins.

The children were kidnapped last week at gunpoint in Akobo, Ibadan.