Criminals kidnap NUPRC worker in Eket, demand N10 million ransom
Four suspected criminals have abducted Stanley Okwekwe, a Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) management staff member at Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom state.
A witness told journalists on Tuesday in Eket that the victim was abducted at the front of his residence in Eket at about 9:00 p.m. on Sunday.
The witness hinted that the abductors had established contact with Mr Okwekwe’s wife when filling this report.
It was explained that the wife had reported the incident to the management of NUPRC on Monday.
“The family have accepted to pay the sum of N10 million as ransom,” the witness alleged.
He said that the abductors had asked for the ransom from the victim’s wife to release her husband.
There have been incessant abductions in the Eket metropolis recently.
Reacting, the state police public relations officer, SP Odiko MacDon, expressed shock at the incident.
“We will find out, but for now, I don’t have any information with me,” Mr MacDon said.
Uduak Akpan, a businesswoman residing in Ata-Idung Afaha Eket in the Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, was abducted on April 9.
(NAN)
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