The
police yesterday said they were searching for a British construction worker
they believed was kidnapped inl Plateau State.
The
search began after the man failed to show up for work on Saturday morning, said
Captain Ikedichi Iweha, a spokesman for the Special Task Force, which is made
up of both military and police personnel. Iweha declined to give further
details.
It
was not known whether the alleged kidnappers were members of terrorist group,
Boko Haram or just bandits.
Boko
Haram gained worldwide attention when it abducted more than 200 girls from a
school in the North-east of Nigeria in April.
According
to Reuters, no one was immediately available for comment at the British High
Commission in the Abuja.
The
kidnapping of expatriates by armed gangs seeking ransom money had long been
rife in Nigeria's oil-producing South-south.
However,
abduction of foreigners in the mainly Muslim North for ideological reasons are
also becoming more common.
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