Insecurity
Gunmen Kidnap Two NRC Staff In Agbor
The kidnappers contacted the people close to the Agbor train station and demanded N40 million.
Gunmen have reportedly kidnapped at least two staff of the Nigerian Railway Corporation at Agbor train station.
The victims have been identified as Peter Osazuwa, STCI Level 10 officer in Operations and Commercial Department and Level Nine Officer from Kwara State, Giwa Mohammed in the Stores and Procurement Department.
A source in NRC who does not want to be named informed that the victims were staffers of the Warri-Itakpe train service in Agbor, while the incident took place some few minutes distance from the Owa-Alero ancestral residence of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.
“They were kidnapped on Thursday evening in Owa-Oyibu, on their way from the town where they went to buy some food items. The incident happened at the junction that leads to the Abavo market.
“The tyres of the Jeep that was driven by them were destroyed, the windscreen shattered They were thereafter kidnapped.
“Recently, the kidnappers contacted the people close to the Agbor train station and demanded N40 million.”
Another source in Agbor said the incident has thrown the whole community into panic and apprehension.
