It has emerged that the release of Enyimba FC of Aba midfielder Dayo Ojo and Abia Comets player Benjamin Iluyomade from their abductors on Thursday was necessitated after the abductors were paid two million, five hundred thousand naira (N2, 500, 000.00) ransom, Bestchoicesports.com.ng can report

Sunshine Stars captain, Abe Sunday, who made the revelation said that the sum of N2.5m was paid for release of the two footballers

According to the Nationonlineng.net, Abe was one of the persons that negotiated and delivered the ransom to the kidnappers.

The two footballers who were former teammates of the Sunshine Stars FC of Akure, were kidnapped at Ipele town along Benin-Akure Expressway in Owo Local Government Area of the state.

Abe told journalists in Akure that the money was paid in cash to the kidnappers at Elegbeka after Owo local government.

He said he accompanied the two brothers of Dayo, Femi and Sunday, to deliver the money and secured the release of the two players.

Abe said the kidnappers began negotiation from N200m to N2.5m.

The Sunshine Fc skipper said the team (Eyimba) contributed N1.5m while the family managed to secure the balance N1m and was taken to the spot where the kidnappers asked them to go.

“They called us around after 4pm on Wednesday that we should come with the money, at times they asked me to send them recharge card. We tried to speak with them on the financial state of the country.

“We negotiated from N100m to N20m before they finally agreed on N2.5 million. Those people have back up in the Army and the Police. They never asked us to drop the money inside the bush, they met with us one on one.

“They asked me to bring the money before they released them, so I don’t know where police rescued them because I don’t like ‘fake news’ we reached Akure around 1am on Thursday.

“But the most important thing is that both of them are alive and are back with their families.”