Chief Press Secretary to Edo State Deputy Governor, Mr. Kelly
Odaro, who was abducted Saturday evening by armed men suspected to be
kidnappers, have made a demand for N20 million ransom.
Odaro was abducted at 6:30p.m. while he was about driving
into his compound at Ikpoba Hill, Benin City, shortly after he left the state
Secretariat of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Reservation Road, Benin City.
An eyewitness told Vanguard that Odaro’s abductors came on a
motorcycle. They were said to have dragged him out of his car and taken him
away in a waiting vehicle. Mrs. Odaro, who was visibly shocked, narrated: “I
was surprised when people in our street came to call me that my husband had
been kidnapped very close to our house by unknown gunmen.
“The car doors were open and the engine was still running. The
helmet used by one of the men who came on the motorcycle and my husband’s
shoe were on the ground close to the car but they went away with his phone.”
Vanguard gathered from a family source that the kidnappers were
demanding N20 million ransom.
Contacted, Edo State Police spokesman, Mr Anthony Airhuoyo, said
the command was aware of the situation and had since swung into action.
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