In Kwara State, north-central part of Nigeria, three farm managers have reportedly been abducted by six heavily armed suspected kidnappers at their commercial poultry farms at Pampo community, Asa local government area of the state.
We learnt that the suspected kidnappers, dressed in Army uniform, shot into the air when they arrived in Hilux vehicle at one of the two farms they operated. The suspected kidnappers reportedly got hold of the chief security officer in the farm and locked him inside one room, before they took away the two farm workers in the first poultry farm.
According to one of the farm owners called
Mirola farm, the bandits also abducted his farm manager when they visited his
farm on their way out of the community.
The farm owner, who said that the
suspected kidnappers had contacted the farm owners, added that they demanded a
total sum of N45 million for the three people abducted, which he said is N15
million ransom for each person.
He said the people kidnapped are two males
and a female, adding that the bandits spoke like Fulani in the way they spoke
in Yoruba language when we talked on phone.
While confirming the development, Police
Public Relations Officer PPRO of the state Police command, Ajayi Okasanmi, who
confirmed the incident, said that the state commissioner of Police, Mohammed
Bagega, has drafted officers and men of the command on the incident, towards
eventual release of the kidnapped victims.
The PPRO however assured that the kidnappers would soon be apprehended and the victims released to their families.
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