Some gunmen on Wednesday kidnapped five members of the National Youth Service Corps who were travelling to their orientation camps in Akwa Ibom and Rivers states .
Two other passengers on the bus conveying the corps members were also kidnapped.

The fresh graduates and the other victims were travelling from Ibadan , the Oyo State capital , to Rivers and Akwa Ibom states where they were billed to undertake their three - week NYSC orientation .
They were kidnapped on the Owerri -Port Harcourt Expressway and taken to the Umuapu forest in the Ohaji /Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State .
Briefing journalists after the victims were rescued by the police , the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Imo State Police Command , Dasuki Galadanchi , said the kidnappers established contact with the families of the corps members and demanded N 5m ransom .