Unidentified
gunmen have kidnapped Mr Festus Ibegu, and Mrs. Abiye Ibegu, the parents of Mr
Richard Ibegu,Chairman of Ogbia Local Government of Nigeria’s Bayelsa state.
The
abduction was carried out at about 10pm on Sunday, at Oloibiri, the village
where Nigeria struck her first crude oil in commercial quantity in 1957.
last
week, mother of the Speaker of Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Mrs. Betinah
Benson was released by ye to be identified abductors.
Our
sources in at the seat of Government in Yenagoa told our correspondent that the
latest kidnap was aimed at embarrassing President Goodluck Jonathan who comes
from the local Government and Governor Serike Dickson who is celebrating his
47th birthday today, and will clock one year in office in about two weeks time.
It
was gathered that the gunmen arrived the home of the parents of the Ogbia
Council boss in a speedboat through the Oloibiri creek and shot sporadically
into the air to scare people before abducting their highly priced victims and
escaped through same Oloibiri waterways.
The
Bayelsa Police Command confirmed the kidnap. It said in a statement that crack
teams of anti-kidnapping unit of the command have been drafted to the area.
The
incident is the latest of high profile kidnapping in the state targeted at
families of political office holders.
[PMNEWS].
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