Muhammed Abubakar, Reporting
WITH less than 20 days to Christmas celebration, gunmen have abducted the Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Ekpe Ogbu, and three others.
Stonix News gathered that the government official was kidnapped alongside Mr Agbo Ode, one of his in-laws and the driver.
The incident is believed to have occurred at about 8:45p.m on Sunday, 4th December, 2022.
They were kidnapped along David Marks Farm, after Akpa Otobi while reportedly on their way from Otukpo to Utonkon in Ado Local Government Area of the state.
The commissioner had 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.
He was said to be returning and to his village in Ndekma, Utonkon District of Ado LGA after the church programme when they were waylaid and abducted.
No official statement has been sighted on the incident and it is not yet clear if families members of the commissioner and three others have been reached by the abductors.