Gunmen kidnap principal, vice principal, and three teachers in Ondo

A school principal, vice principal, and three other teachers were abducted along Auga-Ise road in the Akoko East Local Government Area of Ondo state by suspected kidnappers.

Joshua Adeyemi, the Principal of Auga Community Grammar School, was kidnapped, and lfedayo Yesufu, the Vice Principal, was also kidnapped.

Oloyede Bukola, Adagunodo Funmilayo, and Blessing Okeke, three teachers from the same school, were also kidnapped.

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According to Vanguard, the incident happened on Thursday afternoon while they were driving along the Auga-Ise road in the local government area in a blue Toyota Corolla car owned by the school principal.

The abductors allegedly ambushed the victims and whisked them away into a dense forest.

Blessing Okeke, one of the victims, was released after the captors discovered she was pregnant.

Blessing described the incident, saying they were stranded in the principal’s vehicle on their way home from school.

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Blessing described how they trekked for hours through a dense forest before being freed when their kidnappers discovered she was pregnant.

Oladutoye Akinwan, the Divisional Police Officer for Ikare Division, said detectives had been dispatched to the forest in an attempt to secure the victims’ release.

The vehicle in which the victims were traveling prior to their abduction had been recovered from the location where the kidnappers had abandoned it, according to Akinwa.