Sunday said the abductors also shot dead one Sale Danjuma, who tried to prevent the gunmen from kidnapping the two victims in Zazzaga village.
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Dunia confirmed the abduction at a press conference in Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State.
The spokesman of the Bayelsa State Police Command, Asinim Butswat, who confirmed the development, told NAN on Tuesday in Yenagoa that the incident took place on September 4.
The group of heavily armed men invaded the office at about 5am and shot into the premises, damaging vehicles parked there
“An attack has been launched against one of our camps in Timbuktu (by) unknown men with machine guns,” Radhia Achouri, a spokeswoman for the UN peacekeeping mission, said by telephone.
He said the incident would have been disastrous but for the help of armed policemen on guard at his home
The state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Abdulkadir, who gave an update on the abduction to newsmen in Sokoto on Thursday, said the abductors were in touch with Kakirko’s family
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Irene Ugbo, confirmed the incident.
Dependable sources told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday that the victims were kidnapped on Tuesday
Sources said on Wednesday that the men were on official assignment
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Kennedy Idirisu, confirmed the killing to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lafia on Tuesday
Those abducted were 65-year-old Kakaja Joseph, four poultry workers of Kodjo Farm and two travellers
The witnesses, who craved for anonymity, said the hoodlums searched many houses in Makera, Marina, Yara-gabas, Yara-arewa and Kofar-fada areas of the city
The gunmen, who shot into the air, caused panic in the capital city as residents fled in various directions, the News Agency of Nigeria reports
Policemen only arrived at the scene several minutes after the heavily armed gunmen had left
One of the residents, who preferred anonymity, told the News Agency of Nigeria that he was shot and killed while he was in the process of closing his gate
A travel agent, Oladele Ogundare, was said to be returning home in his car when the rampaging militants opened fire on his car and killed him
The Incident was said to have occurred along the Itakpe-Kuroko Road on Sunday evening while the judge was returning to Lokoja from his country home
Two Kogi judiciary workers kidnapped by gunmen
The Sanga Interim Management Committee Chairman, Nuhu Audu, confirmed the killings and called for urgent investigation into their death