BENUE STATE COMMISSIONER AND THREE OTHERS KIDNAPPED
The Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Mr Ekpe Ogbu, has been kidnapped alongside Honourable Agbo Ode, one of his in-laws and the driver, along David Marks Farm, after Akpa Otobi while on their way from Otukpo to Utonkon in Ado Local Government Area of Benue state on Sunday, December 4, at about 1600hrs.
The information available indicates
that the commissioner had attended a Church programme, where Senator Abba Moro, representing Benue South Senatorial district, dedicated his newly inaugurated Campaign Council to God at St. Augustine Catholic Church, Otukpo and was going to his village in Ndekma, Utonkon District of Ado LGA after the Church programme before being ambushed and whisked away by the gunmen.
The state police have since recovered his official vehicle and deposited it at the Divisional Police office in Otukpo.
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