Update on Commissioner’s Kidnap: eye-witness account, police intervention, etc

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Kidnapped Commissioner Odu-Oji
Efio-Ita Nyok|11 April 2017 
Yet-to-be identified gunmen abducted Gabriel Odu-Oji, the Cross River Commissioner for Water Resources, at Effionawan Street on Mayne Avenue in Calabar South on Sunday 9th April.
SR published that an eyewitness by name, James Ibri, informed that ‘five gunmen kidnapped Mr. Odu-Oji as he was about to enter a restaurant’.
‘At around 12 noon today, I was in front of a restaurant waiting for a friend when the Commissioner for Water Resources stepped down and was approaching the restaurant,’  Mr. Ibri said. ‘Before he could get into the restaurant, some five well-armed men came in a blue Audi, parked their car by the road side and ordered the commissioner into his car and drove away.’ 
He added that the gunmen were donned in masks to conceal their identities.
ASP Irene Ugbo, the State Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with SR.
‘We have received a complaint about the abduction of the Commissioner for Water Resources. He was kidnapped and taken away in his Prado Jeep today,’ she said. ‘We have deployed our men from the command and those from the intelligence department to all routes in the state with a view to releasing him.
‘As we speak, all checkpoints are thoroughly manned by our men to ensure that he is released safely,’ Ms. Ugbo said.
The State Deputy Commissioner of Police, Tunde Gbolarumi, has said that the Honourable Commissioner is still within Calabar, Cross River capital according to intelligence report. 
Efio-Ita Nyok 
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