Unknown gunmen have abducted the Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Ekpe Ogbu, Sunday night, December 4, at about 8.45 p.m.
Also the Honourable Agbo Ode, one of his in-laws and the driver of the commissioner were abducted.
According to reports, they were kidnapped along David Marks Farm, after Akpa Otobi while on their way from Otukpo to Utonkon in Ado Local Government Area of Benue State.
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Ogbu was said to have attended a Church programme, where Senator Abba Moro, representing Benue South Senatorial district, dedicated his newly inaugurated Campaign Council to God at St. Augustine Catholic Church, Otukpo.
After the church programme, the commissioner alongside his entourage was heading to his village in NDEKMA, Utonkon District of Ado LGA when the gunmen who laid an ambush struck and whisked them away.
The state police have since recovered his official vehicle and deposited it at the Divisional Police office in Otukpo.
Efforts are currently being made to rescue the victims unhurt.
