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Six passengers, including three INEC staff, abducted on Aloma-Kogi highway.
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Staff were travelling to Anambra State to print voters’ registers ahead of November 8 governorship election.
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Kidnappers freed driver and elderly woman; remaining occupants remain in kidnappers’ custody.
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted six passengers, including three staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), while travelling from Abuja to Anambra State for the November 8 governorship election.
The victims, identified as Chinenye Orji, Adamaka Anih, and Catherine Temaugee, were ambushed at Aloma in Kogi State.
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The driver of the Sienna minibus, in a recorded conversation obtained by SaharaReporters, said the assailants took control of the highway, fired shots at the bus, and shattered its windscreen.
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“All occupants of the bus were abducted, including my wife, except myself and an elderly woman who could not walk properly,” he recounted.
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The elderly woman told newsmen, “We were in the same vehicle with them, going to Awka. The driver and myself were released. It happened a little after 3pm. We left Utako motor park at 9am, stopped briefly at Lokoja, then continued on the Aloma road. The kidnappers have taken people into custody; later they will contact their people.”
Sources confirmed that the abducted INEC staff had been deployed to Anambra for the printing of voters’ registers and other election materials in preparation for the governorship poll.
“The kidnappers took all occupants of the bus, including the driver’s wife. Fortunately, the bullets did not hit anyone,” one source said.
