The Association of Resident Doctors of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Monday, demanded the release of their colleague, Ganiyat Popoola, who was abducted last December in Kaduna State.

During a peaceful protest on Monday, the Doctors also demanded the rescue of 20 medical students of the University of Jos and Maiduguri abducted along Otukpa-Otukpo-Enugu Road, Benue State on Thursday.

The ARD members led by their President, Olusola Monehin walked around the hospital while chanting for the unconditional and safe return of Dr Popoola and her nephew over seven months after their abduction.

Popoola and indigen of Iseyin in Oyo State and a registrar in the Department of Ophthalmology at the National Eye Centre, Kaduna, was abducted alongside her husband and a nephew.

But while her husband, a military officer and a Nurse, was released in March after payment of huge ransom, the doctor and her nephew have continued to languish away in the custody of their kidnappers.

The doctors, during the protest, carried banners and placards bearing various messages such as “FG must help bring back Dr Ganiyat Popoola’’, “We demand the release of Dr Popoola now”, and ”The security agencies should help free Dr Popoola”, among others to drive home their demand.

Monehin said, “All we are saying is that the Federal Government should deploy all the resources at their disposal to set free Dr Ganiyat Popoola. This a mother of five for God’s sake. She even had a six-month-old baby at the time she was abducted.

“Here is a woman contributing her quota to qualitative health care delivery in the country, serving people with all her passion and over seven months after her abduction, we have not seen her return together with her nephew.

“And just on Thursday, another 20 medical students of the University of Jos were waylaid and abducted in Benue. This goes to show that the insecurity challenge is not getting better. We are therefore calling on the appropriate authority to act fast.

“The security efforts should double up their efforts to get these Nigerians out of the gulag of these criminals. We are on our knees begging the government to act fast and do all that is necessary to free Dr Popoola and the 20 medical students.”