A former chairman of the Nigerian Union
of Local Government Employees (NULGE) Akoko-Edo branch, Alhaji Jimoh
Olumoye, has been kidnapped on his way to farm.
Alhaji Olumoye
was abducted along Igarra-Okpe Road on Sunday afternoon while driving in
his car to pick his children from the farm.
A member of the
family who pleaded anonymity told Daily Trust that his children raised
alarm when they saw their father’s car with the doors opened and his
phones abandoned.
“His children had gone to the farm early in the
morning and he promised to go and picked them in the afternoon before
he would attend his family meeting." said the family source.
“The
children waited endlessly for their father and when they did not see
him, decided to be trekking home. On their way home, they met his car on
the road with the four doors opened and his mobile phone abandoned.
After searching for their father fruitlessly, they decided to now come
home to inform the family. We have been praying for his safety, we are
worried because he is a civil servant who also farms to augment whatever
he is earning as a civil servant. We are appealing that his abductors
release him unhurt. He has an aged mother and everybody is scared of
breaking the news to her, we are really worried”.
The source said the family has lodged a formal complaint at the Igarra police station. It
was gathered that several vigilance groups in Igarra, Ojah, Ogugu and
environs in Akoko-Edo local government area and their counterparts in
Owan East have been mobilized to comb the forests around the area.
A
member of the vigilance group said, “It was only the State Security
Service that responded to our call immediately we heard of the incident
and called them. We have mobilised our members and we trying to track
them down in the forests so they would move out to other states close to
us.
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Former NULGE Chairman Kidnapped On His Way To Farm In Edo
A former chairman of the Nigerian Union
of Local Government Employees (NULGE) Akoko-Edo branch, Alhaji Jimoh
Olumoye, has been kidnapped on his way to farm.
Alhaji Olumoye
was abducted along Igarra-Okpe Road on Sunday afternoon while driving in
his car to pick his children from the farm.
A member of the
family who pleaded anonymity told Daily Trust that his children raised
alarm when they saw their father’s car with the doors opened and his
phones abandoned.
“His children had gone to the farm early in the
morning and he promised to go and picked them in the afternoon before
he would attend his family meeting." said the family source.
“The
children waited endlessly for their father and when they did not see
him, decided to be trekking home. On their way home, they met his car on
the road with the four doors opened and his mobile phone abandoned.
After searching for their father fruitlessly, they decided to now come
home to inform the family. We have been praying for his safety, we are
worried because he is a civil servant who also farms to augment whatever
he is earning as a civil servant. We are appealing that his abductors
release him unhurt. He has an aged mother and everybody is scared of
breaking the news to her, we are really worried”.
The source said the family has lodged a formal complaint at the Igarra police station. It
was gathered that several vigilance groups in Igarra, Ojah, Ogugu and
environs in Akoko-Edo local government area and their counterparts in
Owan East have been mobilized to comb the forests around the area.
A
member of the vigilance group said, “It was only the State Security
Service that responded to our call immediately we heard of the incident
and called them. We have mobilised our members and we trying to track
them down in the forests so they would move out to other states close to
us.
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