Gunmen have kidnapped 15 corps members returning from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Permanent Orientation Camp in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Wednesday.
One of the relatives of the kidnapped corps members who spoke with FIJ on Thursday said that the youths were abducted along the Ofu/Itobe–Onicha-Igo axis in Ofu LGA, Kogi State, on their way to Abuja.
The source said that his brother, Ayodele David, and 14 other corps members were kidnapped from a Peace Mass Transit bus and another bus marked ‘564’. He said they were alerted to the incident by Adeji Joshua, a police officer from the Kogi State Police Command.
The police officer said the driver of the bus was left behind by the abductors but was badly injured. He said he described the identity of the abductors as a mix of people who spoke Fulfulde, Hausa and English.
He explained that there were two buses on the scene and the passengers of the other bus were allowed to go because most of them had babies. He stated that only four people were taken from the vehicle.
A video clip from the scene of the incident shows that the abductors shot at the victims before taking them.
