A former Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Akoko-Edo branch, Edo State, Alhaji Jimoh Olumoye, has been kidnapped while going to farm.
He was abducted on the Igarra-Okpe Road on Sunday afternoon while driving his car to pick his children from the farm.
A member of the family, who preferred anonymity, said his children raised the alarm when they saw their father’s car with the doors opened and his phones abandoned.
The source said: “His children had gone to the farm early in the morning and he promised to pick them in the afternoon before he would attend a family meeting.
“The children waited for their father and when they did not see him, they trekked home. When returning home, they saw his car with the four doors opened and his phones abandoned. After searching for their father fruitlessly, they went home to inform the family.
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“We have been praying for his safety. We are worried because he is a civil servant who also farms to augment his salary. We appeal to his abductors to release him. He has an aged mother and everybody is afraid of breaking the news to her. We are really worried.”
The source said the family had lodged a complaint at Igarra Police Station.
It was gathered that vigilance groups at Igarra, Ojah, Ogugu and environs in Akoko-Edo Local Government and their counterparts in Owan East have been mobilised to comb the forests to rescue the victim.
A member of a vigilance group said: “It was only the State Security Service that responded to our call immediately we heard about the incident and called them. We have mobilised our members and we trying to track the kidnappers down in the forests so that they will not escape to neighbouring states.”
Police spokesman Chidi Nwabuzor could not be reached for comments last night. [THE NATION]
