PORT HARCOURT —According to reports, gunmen abducted some National Youth Service Corps, or NYSC, volunteers in Rivers State’s Emohua Local Government Area.
The victims, it was learned, were returning from the recent orientation camping exercise in Ondo State. They were taken captive Tuesday night at 9 p.m. while traveling to Port Harcourt.
A witness who called a local radio station to report the kidnapping of her sister-in-law and her coworkers corroborated the occurrence.
The East-West Road’s Rumuji axis in Emohua, Rivers State, according to the eyewitness, is where the corps men were kidnapped.
According to reports, five of the corps members managed to escape the kidnapping and turned themselves in at the Rumuji Divisional Police Station.
Number of victims abducted by the kidnappers could not be ascertained at press time.
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Okon Effiong, has deployed a police tactical team to track down gunmen who abducted the NYSC members at Rumuji.
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Rivers Police Command’s spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko, who disclosed the CP’s order in Port Harcourt, yesterday, explained without giving specific figures that some of the corps members have been rescued and efforts are on to free those still with the kidnappers.
However, a security source and eye witness told Vanguard: “Those the police say they have rescued were lucky corps members, who escaped the kidnap. What happened was that a group of corps members, who live in Rivers were on their way to Port Harcourt from the NYSC Camp in Ondo after passing through orientation in that state.
“It happened on May 16. They likely had jointly hired the Port Harcourt bound bus. At Rumuji, about 9p.m., on the East West Road, they were already in Rumuji when the bus was hijacked. It is not clear how many persons were abducted but five of the travellers escaped and ran to the Rumuji Police Division to report the matter.”
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