BENIN CITY: A Nigerian couple kidnapped from Aviele community near Auchi, Edo State, have cried out for help in a disturbing video recorded by their abductors.
In the video, the terrified husband pleads for assistance, saying the kidnappers are threatening to kill them if their family fails to raise the ₦50 million ransom being demanded.
Please help us… help us. My wife is pregnant, and they want to sleep with her. Please help us.
Our family has only been able to raise ₦7 million. They are demanding ₦50 million, he said, while armed men stood over them, threatening to shoot.
Human rights activist, Harrison Gwamnishu, who received the video from the family, posted it on social media to call attention to their plight.
He also shared a separate clip from a relative narrating how the couple was abducted.
According to the relative, the husband had just returned home when the gunmen, described as suspected Fulani herdsmen stormed their compound and dragged the couple away into a nearby bush.
Gwamnishu urged both the Federal Government and the Edo State Government to respond swiftly and restore security to the community.
