The Ekiti school pupils kidnapped along side their teachers and bus driver are undergoing medical checks after regaining their freedom early Sunday morning.
Ekiti State governor Biodun Oyebanji and Senator Opeyemi Bamidele stayed awake till 4.00am Sunday morning to ensure the kids and teachers were back home. Unfortunately, their school bus driver, Olugbaye Taiwo did not make it back, he was said to have been killed by the kidnappers.
Governor Oyebanji said in a statement released by his media adviser Yinka Oyebode:“Noting the traumatic experience of the children in the kidnappers’ den, the Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Oyebanji Filani has been directed to take the children to the state Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti for proper medical treatment and post trauma therapy.
“Governor Oyebanji also restates the determination of his administration to stamp out crime and criminality from the state by making the environment unbearable for criminals operating under whatever guise.
“Similarly, the Governor says killers of the two Ekiti obas would be fished out and made to face the maximum weight of the law.”
It was not clear if any ransom was paid to the kidnappers who had demanded for a N100m.
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