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  • Gunmen abduct Edo LG Chairman, bus passengers

    Gunmen abduct Edo LG Chairman, bus passengers

    Daredevil kidnappers on Friday abducted a serving local government chairman, bus passengers and a university student.

    The abducted chairman is Waziri Edokpa, Esan Central LG. He was reportedly kidnapped along the Benin-Abuja Highway on Friday.

    Edokpa, who is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, was reportedly kidnapped in the early hours of Friday.

    While the dust raised by the abduction of the local government chairman is yet to settle down, news also came that all passengers of a popular Benin-based transport company were hijacked and kidnapped by gunmen.

    The driver of the bus which was said to have been traveling to Abuja from Benin, was reportedly killed.

    According to reports, the whereabouts of all the kidnapped victims are unknown.

    It was gathered that chairmen of local government areas from Edo South are in a closed door meeting with the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Johnson Babatunde Kokumo.

    In another development, a 400-level medical student of an unnamed university, Oghogho Christiana, was also kidnapped along Benin/Auchi road on Thursday.

    News of her abduction was posted on a social media platform in Benin.

    It was gathered that as security operatives are working round the clock to check the rising insecurity in Benin City, capital of Edo State, attention of hoodlums has now shifted to all major express roads linking Benin city with other parts of the country.

    The gun-wielding gunmen are now unleashing mayhem on innocents travellers on the various routes, with Benin/Auchi, Benin/Lagos roads being worst hit.

  • Bandits kidnap 14 bus passengers, driver in Osun

    Bandits kidnap 14 bus passengers, driver in Osun

    Bandits, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, have reportedly kidnapped 14 bus passengers, including the driver, along Otan/Imesi-Ile road in Osun.

    All the eighteen occupants of the bus were initially, but four of them escaped. Police said they were rescued by their men.

    NAN reported that the kidnapping was carried out following a tip-off from one of the occupants in the bus, who disguised as a passenger.

    The driver and occupants of the commercial bus, who were said to be travelling from Osogbo to Abuja, were kidnapped by the bandits at Ajeoku Junction, Otanle\Imesile expressway on Sunday night.

    The passengers were said to have been whisked to the forest and no contacts have been made with the family members of the victims.

    Osun Police Public Relations Officer, Folashade Odoro, said the total number of the victims could not be ascertained yet.

    “For now, we cannot confirm the number of people, who were kidnapped until we get feed back from our officers.

    “But I can tell you that we are on top of the situation and all the kidnapped persons will be rescued,” Odoro said.

    The PPRO, however, in a text message later sent to NAN, confirmed that four of the victims had been rescued as at the time of filing in this report.

    Odoro called on the people of the state to pomptly report any suspected movement to the police.