The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the monarch, who was traveling with four of his relatives in a private car, was attacked by the armed men, who mounted a road block on the Onitcha-Olona/Ezi road at about 4.25 pm.
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Balogun, who is the head of the High Chiefs elevated to the status of crown-wearing Obas by Governor Abiola Ajimobi, was not available for comments as at press time.
He said that the corpses of the slain policemen had been deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, where the injured suspect is also receiving treatment.
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the kidnappers, who were about nine in number, gained access to the traditional ruler’s palace and went into his bedroom, but the district head resisted the attempt to abduct him and engaged them in a fight.
ASP Terna Tyopev, the Police Public Relations Officer confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Jos.
Its spokesman, Mohammad Abubakar, in a statement on Tuesday in Minna, said that no suspect was in custody when the gunmen came.
Terna Tyopev, the spokesman of the Police Command in the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos that the incident happened at about 5:30 p.m on Monday.
Udoessien was said to have been abducted from his palace by the assailants after a fierce gun battle with the security agents drafted to provide security in the volatile area.
Five police officers and an off-duty soldier were killed in the attack in Nqcobo, about 800 km southeast of Johannesburg, police spokesman Brig. Vishnu Naidoo said
The Chief Security Officer of UNN, Romanus Nwafor, confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Nsukka, near Enugu on Monday.
Confirming the incident, Spokesman of the Bayelsa Police Command, DSP Asinim Butswat, said in Yenagoa that police had arrested the accomplice and that he was undergoing interrogation.
The strike by the gunmen came just a few hours after the Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, raised the alarm that there are plans to attack the state again by gunmen
Alhaji Yusuf Usman, the Administrator of Jema’a Local Government Council, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Kafanchan.
The command’s Spokesman, ASP Terna Tyopev, told newsmen in Jos that the incident, which occurred on Thursday night, also left eight persons injured and 20 houses completely razed.
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Mohammed Shehu, told newsmen in Gusau on Monday that the children were abducted after the gunmen invaded the lawmaker’s home village at Gora in Maradun Local Government.
He said that two brothers, Alhaji Garba Yakassai and Alhaji Umar Yakassai and five others were kidnapped on two different occasions.
He was kidnapped on January 2 in his residence in Anchuna village, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area in Southern Kaduna and released on Thursday after spending nine days with the kidnappers.
The command’s spokesman, David Misal, said in Jalingo, the State capital, that Ibi was kidnapped in Takum, his hometown, on Saturday night.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that some yet to be identified gunmen had on December 16 invaded the coastal settlement to abduct the monarch’s wife and Egele Jack, the Principal of Government Craft Development Centre, Ayakoro.
Majesty Inegbagha, a member of the monarch’s family, who confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa on Tuesday, said the incident took place on December 16.