Colonel kidnapped in Delta community

By Chancel Sunday

BOMADI—An Army officer, simply identified arsenic Lt.-Col. Josiah, has been kidnapped from his lodge, aft attending a matrimony ceremonial successful Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State.

The incident, which occurred, yesterday successful Bomadi, office of the council, has caused panic successful the riverside town, with soldiers from the Bomadi Division of the subject Joint Task Force, JTF, patrolling Bomadi and surrounding communities.

Vanguard gathered that Lt Colonel Josiah attended a matrimony ceremonial successful Kpakiama community, a neighbouring assemblage to Bomadi, weekend. After attending the ceremony, helium proceeded to his lodge astatine Bomadi, the council’s headquarters.

A source, who pleaded anonymity, disclosed that the kidnappers, who were armed, struck astatine the lodge astir 2a.m., to 2.30a.m., ransacked the rooms, took the phones and whisked distant the subject serviceman successful a acceptable vehicle.

“The kidnappers came to the edifice astir 2a.m., to 2.30a.m. They searched each room, took the phones astatine lodgers and forced the subject serviceman outside. They adjacent fired shots earlier zooming retired of the edifice premises with the subject serviceman successful their vehicle. There was besides humor connected the crushed aft they had near the premises.

“The pursuing day, we heard that the JTF had recovered the conveyance successful which they carried retired the cognition successful neighbouring Tuomo community, which was abandoned by the broadside of the Tuomo-Ogbobagbene-Tamigbe-Torugbene-Ojobo road. The conveyance has already been brought to their basal astatine Bomadi-Overside,” helium said.

However, determination is hostility successful Bomadi and environs implicit the incident, with residents expressing fearfulness of the chartless implicit what they termed imaginable transferred aggression connected mean citizens by the military.

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