Gunmen Abduct Lecturer, Demand N20m in Kogi

Gunmen Abduct Lecturer, Demand N20m in Kogi

Gunmen have abducted the Dean of Faculty of Management Sciences, Kogi State University, Ayingba, Professor John Alabi, at his residence in Ayingba in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State.

Alabi was returning home on Monday evening around 6.00pm when he was accosted by unknown gunmen in a Mercedes Benz car.

THISDAY learnt that as soon as the university don alighted from his car at main gate of his house, the hoodlums armed with guns abducted in the waiting Benz car and drove him away.

It was gathered that the unsuspecting lecturer was trying to check his car when he was picked him up.

Sources hinted that the suspected gunmen had contacted the university management and his wife to demand for ransom of N20 million.

Efforts to speak with school authority proved abortive.

When some journalists visited the home of Alabi in Lokoja, they were directed to Apostolic Church where wife had joined prayer warriors for the unconditional release of her husband.

The Police Public Relation Officer, Kogi State Police Command, DSP. William Aya, confirmed the incident.

Aya explained that the Commissioner of Police, CP. Idrisu Dauda Dabban, has deployed the operatives of the command to be on the trail of the hoodlums to get them arrested and be brought to justice.

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