Yet-to-be-identified gunmen have reportedly abducted Ishaya Dimas Dila, the former Vice Chairman of Yorro Local Government Council, in Taraba State.
The former vice chairman was kidnapped by the bandits in the early hours of Sunday in Dila village, Yorro council, alongside a businessman, Lawal Begwa.
Recall that a day ago, the kidnapped district head of Kwaji Chiefdom, Alhaji Umaru Nyala, in Yorro regained his freedom from the den of his abductors.
Speaking on the development, some residents said the kidnappers stormed the community in the early hours of the day and took away Dila and Begwa from their respective homes.
Confirming the abduction, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in the state, Usman Abdullahi, said “the former vice chairman of Yorro local government council and one other person were kidnapped in Dila village in the early hours of today.”
He said the police, in collaboration with other sister security agencies, are already after the kidnappers.
He reiterated the commitment of the command to secure the release of all those that have been kidnapped across the state unhurt.
Meanwhile, two persons died while seven others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a road crash at J4, along the Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode-Ore highway in Ogun State.
The auto-crash occurred on Saturday around 3:35 pm, involving two vehicles: a Chevrolet SUV with registration number WWW75MW and a truck marked SRA584XB.
Spokesperson of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Florence Okpe, confirmed the accident in a statement in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State.
Okpe said six men and one woman were injured, while one man and one woman died in the crash.
“The suspected causes of the crash were excessive speed and road obstruction. The jeep driver rammed into the station truck due to speeding.
“The injured victims were rescued by a good Samaritan driver that was driving behind them and took them to hospital for medical attention, while the corpses were deposited at the state General Hospital morgue, Ijebu-Ode by FRSC operatives,” the statement reads.