A Nigerian army officer, Lt.-Col. Josiah, has been abducted by gunmen from his base in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State.
It was learned that the Army Officer was allegedly abducted from his lodge as the gunmen fire gunshots sporadically to scare people at about 2.am on Sunday.
The incident in Bomadi, headquarters of the council, has caused panic in the local government, as soldiers drafted from the Bomadi Division of the military Joint Task Force, JTF, in Bomadi are in search of the Lt. Col in surrounding communities.
Sources disclosed Lt Colonel Josiah attended a marriage ceremony in Kpakiama community, a neighbouring community to Bomadi, weekend. After attending the ceremony, he proceeded to his lodge at Bomadi, the council’s headquarters.
The source, who spoke on anonymous condition, revealed that the kidnappers, who were armed, invaded the Army Officer’s lodge between 2.am and 3.am ransacked all the rooms of the hotel, siezed al phones and whisked away the military officer in an awiting vehicle.
“The kidnappers came to the hotel about 2a.m., to 2.30a.m. They searched every room, took the phones from lodgers and forced the military officer outside.
“They even fired shots before zooming out of the hotel premises with the military officer in their vehicle. There was also blood on the ground after they had left the premises.
“The following day, we heard that the JTF had found the vehicle in which they carried out the operation in neighbouring Tuomo community, which was abandoned by the side of the Tuomo-Ogbobagbene-Tamigbe-Torugbene-Ojobo road.
“The vehicle has already been brought to their base at Bomadi-Overside,” he said.
However, there is tension in Bomadi and environs over the incident, with residents expressing fear of the unknown over what they termed possible transferred aggression on ordinary citizens by the military.
Source-Vanguard News
