Kidnappers Reject N30m Ransom For President’s Cousin

The kidnappers of Chief Inengite Nitabai, cousin to President Goodluck Jonathan have reportedly rejected the N30m offered by his family for his release. They say the amount is laughable.

Chief Nitabai, a former lecturer at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt was abducted penultimate Sunday at his Otuoke country home in Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State by ten armed men.A source source close to the Nitabai family told Vanguard that the troubled family instead offered to pay his abductors N30m which they rejected.

 “They (kidnappers) rejected the N30m offer which they described as laughable coming from a family linked to the President,” the source said.
Also a security source who pleaded anonymity confirmed the development saying, “we are aware that the family is negotiating with the kidnappers and that they are demanding N500m which the family described as outrageous. They instead offered to part with N30 which the kidnappers were said to have rejected.”

Omare said the committee has established contacts with his captors assuring that in no distance time he would be released.
 “In consonance with the position of the IYC we have advised the relevant persons not to offer any ransom in order to effect the release of Mr President uncle because if we offer ransom we are encouraging more kidnapping. “IYC position is that criminality must be erased from Ijawland, so we have told them not to offer any ransom, though he has not been released but we are very sure in the next few days or hours we would effect his release,” he said.