Gunmen kidnap eight National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members along a highway in Zamfara on Saturday.
According to reports, the corps members were on their way to Sokoto State via Zamfara State, where they were participating in the mandatory national service, when their bus, operated by AKTC, was stopped along the highway in Zamfara.
A source stated that 11 corps members were present, but three of them managed to get away from the gunmen. Apart from the eight corps members, the driver of the bus was also abducted, he said. “The corps members were offloaded (from the bus) and taken into the bush”, adding that “The police have recovered the bus”.
According to him, “They left here (Uyo) on Friday, and slept over in Abuja. It was when they were proceeding to Sokoto that they were kidnapped”.
At approximately 9:14 a.m. on Sunday, a Facebook user, Malachy Blessed, revealed in a post that one of the kidnapped corps members was Emmanuel Esudue, an alumnus of Akwa-Ibom State University’s Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering.
The phone number of the corps member, according to him, has not been reachable since Thursday. Betty Udofia has also identified as another victim. Another Facebook user, Edidiong Richard, claimed that the kidnappers had gotten in touch with Ms. Udofia’s parents and were requesting a ransom of N4 million.
