A board member of the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission, Alhaji Isah Salami, has been kidnapped in Kogi State.
He was reportedly kidnapped in the early hours of Thursday on his way to a mosque in Ogaminana, in the Adavi Local Government Area of the state.
Reliable sources said the kidnappers came in a vehicle with which they took the victim away around 5am.
An eyewitness, Ilyas Okaraga, said another person was also shot by the hoodlums.
“A young man, who attempted to save him from the gunmen, was shot. He was rushed to a hospital for treatment,” he added.
Our source disclosed that Salami inaugurated a water project in Adavi on Wednesday before he was kidnapped on Thursday.
The incident was confirmed by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP William Aya, who also said one person was killed in the process.
Meanwhile, some gunmen on Wednesday shot three occupants of a car on the Federal College of Education Road in Otite.
One of the occupants of the car reportedly escaped by a whisker, while two others were killed by the hoodlums.
The police spokesman, Aya, said the state Commissioner of Police had drafted security men to go after the assailants.
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