{"id":9051,"date":"2026-11-04T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/six-abducted-benue-mourners-regain-freedom\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:02:10","slug":"six-abducted-benue-mourners-regain-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/six-abducted-benue-mourners-regain-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Six abducted Benue mourners regain freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"62.03640634175\">\n<p>Kidnappers have released a man and five other mourners who were abducted while conveying his wife\u2019s corpse for burial in Benue State, following the reported payment of N2.5m ransom.\n<\/p>\n<p>The six victims were kidnapped around 8pm on Friday along Adoka Road in Otukpo Local Government Area while travelling to Okpoga in Okpokwu LGA.\n<\/p>\n<p>The deceased woman reportedly died in Kano, and her husband and five others were transporting her remains for burial when gunmen intercepted their vehicle along the road.\n<\/p>\n<p>The kidnappers reportedly abandoned the corpse on the highway and demanded N15m ransom for the release of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>A source told our correspondent that the six abductees regained their freedom in the early hours of Wednesday after their families paid N2.5m. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe six kidnap victims were released early hours of today after family paid N2.5 million,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming their release, the Chairman of Otukpo Local Government Area, Maxwell Ogiri, said the victims were freed between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning but declined to comment on the ransom payment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s true that the victims were released between Tuesday night and the early hours of Wednesday,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>However, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Peter Aondongu, said he was yet to receive confirmation of their release.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am yet to get the report of the release of the kidnap victims,\u201d the police spokesman said.\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#33475b5656575a475c417343465d505b5d541d505c5e\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"99edf1fcfcfdf0edf6ebd9e9ecf7faf1f7feb7faf6f4\">[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>Kidnappers have released a man and five other mourners who were abducted while conveying his wife\u2019s corpse for burial in Benue State, following the reported payment of N2.5m ransom. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051","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=9051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}