Army Lt Colonel kidnapped in Delta community

By Chancel Bomadi Sunday

BOMADI—An service ranking serviceman simply identified arsenic Lt Colonel Josiah , has been kidnapped from his lodge aft attending a matrimony ceremonial successful Bomadi section authorities country of Delta State.

The incident, which occurred yesterday astatine Bomadi, office of the assembly area, has caused panic successful the riverside town, with soldiers from the Bomadi Division of the subject Joint Task Force (JTF) patrolling Bomadi and surrounding communities.

Vanguard’s findings revealed that Lt Colonel Josiah attended a matrimony ceremonial astatine Kpakiama community, a neighbouring assemblage of Bomadi, implicit the weekend. After attending the ceremony, helium proceeded to his lodge astatine Bomadi, the council’s headquarters.

Our source, who pleaded anonymity, disclosed that the kidnappers, who were armed, struck astatine the lodge successful the dormant of the nighttime astir 2 americium to 2.30 am, ransacked assorted rooms, took the phones of lodgers and whisked distant the subject serviceman successful a acceptable vehicle.

“The kidnappers came to the edifice astir 2 americium to 2.30 americium past night. They searched each room, took the phones of lodgers and forced the subject serviceman to the outside. They adjacent changeable a weapon earlier zooming retired of the edifice premises with the subject serviceman successful their vehicle. There was besides humor connected the crushed aft they had near the premises.

“The pursuing day, we heard that the JTF had recovered the conveyance successful which they carried retired the cognition successful neighbouring Tuomo community, which was abandoned by the broadside of the Tuomo-Ogbobagbene-Tamigbe-Torugbene-Ojobo road. The conveyance has already been brought to their basal astatine Bomadi-Overside,” helium said.

However, determination is hostility successful Bomadi and environs implicit the incident, with residents expressing the fearfulness of the chartless implicit what they termed imaginable transferred aggression connected mean citizens with strict measures.

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