{"id":6774,"date":"2026-11-02T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/how-i-escaped-bandits-den-after-ransom-payment-ondo-graduate\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:00:44","slug":"how-i-escaped-bandits-den-after-ransom-payment-ondo-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/how-i-escaped-bandits-den-after-ransom-payment-ondo-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"How I escaped bandits\u2019 den after ransom payment \u2014 Ondo graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"45\">\n<p>Gbolahan Olaniyi recounts his horrific experience after he was kidnapped on his farm in Ekiti State. He said his tractor operator, who was also abducted, was killed after his family reportedly failed to raise the ransom demanded by the kidnappers, while his own family was asked to pay \u20a615 million for his release.\n<\/p>\n<p>Olaniyi said that even after his family paid the ransom, he was transferred to another group of kidnappers who demanded additional money. Despite negotiating the second ransom down to \u20a62 million, he said they continued to endure unbearable conditions until an opportunity arose for them to escape. He shares how he eventually regained his freedom after the ordeal.\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#5c28343939383528332e1c2c29323f34323b723f3331\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"b3c7dbd6d6d7dac7dcc1f3c3c6ddd0dbddd49dd0dcde\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gbolahan Olaniyi recounts his horrific experience after he was kidnapped on his farm in Ekiti State. He said his tractor operator, who was also abducted, was killed after his family&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}