Gunmen abduct council secretary, one other in Ondo

The Ondo State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of a assembly caput and different idiosyncratic astatine a poultry workplace successful Akure North Local Government Area of the state.
The command’s spokesperson, Abayomi Jimoh, disclosed this successful a connection issued connected Monday, noting that the incidental occurred earlier successful the time astatine a workplace located on Kajola Road successful the Ilu-Abo area.

Jimoh identified the victims arsenic Joseph Kayode and Esther Akinlolu, who were reportedly taken distant by equipped men.

According to the police, Kayode serves arsenic the caput of the Okeluju Local Council Development Area successful Akoko North-West Local Government Area.

The spokesperson explained that preliminary findings revealed that 3 equipped men, whose identities stay unknown, stormed the poultry workplace aft emerging from a adjacent bush.

“The assailants, who were masked, reportedly fired shots into the aerial earlier abducting the victims and fleeing to an chartless destination,” Jimoh said.

He added that the constabulary swiftly mobilised tactical units and detectives to the country to motorboat a search-and-rescue cognition and fortify information patrols successful the area.

Jimoh further disclosed that the Commissioner of Police successful the state, Adebowale Lawal, had ordered the deployment of each disposable operational and intelligenc...