Edo: Abducted seminarians beg as kidnappers threaten to kill victims

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Seminarians abducted at the Catholic Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary School at Ivianokpodi, Agenebode, in Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State, have appealed to their parents and well-wishers to help secure their release.

PUNCH Metro gathered that gunmen attacked the school on July 10, killed a civil defence corps officer attached to the school, and abducted three seminarians.

While one of the abductees was released afterwards, two others have remained in the kidnappers’ den ever since.

Immediately the seminarians were abducted, the Commissioner of Police in Edo State, Monday Agbonika, had ordered the immediate deployment of tactical teams to apprehend the abductors and rescue the seminarians unhurt.

Agbonika said, “The operatives will not relent until those behind this reprehensible act are tracked down and made to face the full wrath of the law.”

However, in a recent video recording reportedly released by the kidnappers, the two teenage seminarians were seen begging their parents and members of the public to pay for their freedom.Surrounded by masked gun-wielding men, the seminarians were also seen holding dried human skulls. Punch