The
whereabouts of 14 oil workers of a Port Harcourt-based company, Nestoil,
kidnapped by gunmen in River State remain unknown a week after their abduction.
The
police have not been able to trace the location of the oil workers eight days
after they were whisked away in Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area
of the state.
Though
the police have continued to comb bushes in the area in order to rescue the
victims, they have been unable to locate them.
The
oil workers, who were in their company’s Toyota Coaster bus, were stopped by
their captors along Omoku-Elele Road as they were returning to Port Harcourt.
Sources
disclosed that the hoodlums commanded the driver to drive the vehicle to an
unidentified place, where the occupants were ordered into a nearby bush. The
kidnappers had demanded N100m ransom.
A
resident in Omoku said that some members of a vigilance group were also
assisting security operatives to find the victims.
The
resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “Security operatives and
members of a vigilance group have been searching for the oil workers since
September 2 when they were kidnapped. Sadly, none of them has been rescued.’’
When
contacted on Saturday, the Spokesperson for the Rivers Police Command, Mr.
Nnamdi Omoni, explained that the police would soon make headway.
He,
however, added that it would not be right to divulge information on the matter
in order not to frustrate the efforts being made by the police to rescue the
victims.
“We
are making headway, but we cannot talk on security issues like this for now.
All I can tell you is that we are working towards rescuing the oil workers,”
Omini said.
Source: The Punch
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