Unidentified armed gunmen yesterday abducted the President of Urhobo
Progressive Youth Association, Comrade Marcus Ekure, and his female colleague,
identified as Miss Antonia Okpor.
Ekure and Okpor were said to have been kidnapped between Okurekpo and
Okufuoma communities along the Effurun-Eku expressway, Ethiope East Local
Government area of Delta State.
It was learnt that Ekure who
drove in a black Camry car in company with Okpor was returning from a family
meeting at Eku in preparation for his late father’s burial when his car was
intercepted by their abductors.
According to an eyewitness account, the kidnappers dragged Ekure and
Okpor out the Camry car at gun point and forced them into their own car and
zoomed off to an unknown destination while Ekure’s car which was abandoned was
taken to the police station in Isiokolo, headquarters of the council area.
A family source confided in our correspondent that the kidnappers had
already made contact with the panic- striken family members of Ekure and
demanded a ransom of N10 million.
Contacted, the Area Commander in charge of the Ughelli Area command of
the Nigeria Police Force, Mr. Awosola Awotinde, confirmed the incident, saying
that the police were already on top of the matter.
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