Gunmen abduct corps member in A/Ibom
Six gunmen suspected to be members of Iceland cult group have kidnapped a youth corps member from his village in Akwa Ibom State. Akpanabia Udoworen, who is serving in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State, was said to have visited his parents at Nto Okon Usung Itike in Ukanafun Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State after […]
Six gunmen suspected to be members of Iceland cult group have kidnapped a youth corps member from his village in Akwa Ibom State.
Akpanabia Udoworen, who is serving in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State, was said to have visited his parents at Nto Okon Usung Itike in Ukanafun Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State after completing his orientation exercise and was discharged from the camp on Friday.
A family source told our correspondent that as soon as the hoodlums heard that Udoworen, who is the son of the president of a prominent socio-cultural organisation, Esop Ikpaisong Afaha in Ukanafun, had returned, they stormed his family compound on three motorbikes and whisked him away.
The source added that the hoodlums were yet to contact the family on a ransom or say the whereabouts of the victim.
“He arrived on Friday and the following day, Saturday, the hoodlums got wind of his arrival and stormed the compound at Nto Okon Usung Itike and whisked him away after brandishing AK-47 rifles and machetes,” a family source told our correspondent anonymously.
The police spokesman in the state, Mr. Odiko Macdon, who said the police were yet to be briefed on the incident, said “even after asking several questions, no one has come to report or give any information to the police concerning this.”
Our correspondent learnt that the police command in the state had arrested many hoodlums, raided their camps in Okoyo, Ikot Akpan Ayara as well as other locations and rescued many kidnapped victims.
It was also gathered that the hoodlums, mostly of the Iceland cult groups, have been kidnapping for ransom in the last two years, compelling Governor Udom Emmanuel to outlaw at least 33 cult groups in the state.