Amid insecurity in Benue state, a former Education Secretary of Ogbadibo LGA of Benue State, Mr Sunday Ajeh, has been reportedly kidnapped by some unknown gunmen and whisked to an unknown destination.
According to a source in the state, the incident happened around 6.30 pm when the victim was returning from the burial ceremony of one of his colleagues at nearby Otukpa village on Wednesday.
According to the source, ” We learnt that the armed men stopped him after barricading the road at Agada Hill just a stone throw from Adum Oko village in the Orokam axis of the LGA.
“They took him away and abandoned his vehicle at the roadside. People only discovered that he had been kidnapped when they saw his abandoned car and the manner in which it was abandoned without any trace of him.
“Though an alarm was immediately raised, and the youths of the area embarked on a search for him, as we speak, no one knows who took him and where they took him.
“Even as we speak, his abductors have not established contact with his family; no one knows the motive of those who kidnapped him, and they have also not demanded ransom from his family members.
“Though the matter has been reported to the police, we gathered that some youths of the area are still combing the bushes to locate and possibly rescue him.”
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent SP Catherine Anene, said she was yet to receive details of the incident.
The Ogbadibo axis of the state has become notorious for the abduction of commuters and travellers by armed men who usually take over major roads in that axis in broad daylight and kidnap their victims for ransom.
Kemi Filani recalls that a Commissioner in the state was kidnapped less than a week ago.