Barely
five months after the younger sister of Nigeria’s petroleum minister,
Diezani Alison-Madueke, was kidnapped in Port Harcourt, gunmen have
abducted the minister’s brother.
Joseph Agama, who is Mrs.
Alison-Madueke’s younger brother, was kidnapped in the early hours of
Thursday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, police said.
The
Bayelsa State police spokesperson, Asinim Butswat, who confirmed the
development, said that the command received news of the incident shortly
after it occurred and had already moved to rescue him.
Mr.
Butswat said the incident occurred at about 12.30 a.m. on Thursday at
Yenaka community, a coastal settlement in Yenagoa Local Government Area.
Community sources told Premium Times that the armed
gunmen arrived in a speedboat at the community waterfront, less than a
kilometre from Bayelsa Police Headquarters.
They later seized their victim and took him to an unknown destination, the source said.
The kidnappers had yet to establish contact with the family, the source added.
The minister’s sister, Osiyo Agama, was kidnapped in October 2014, and
was later rescued by a combined team of Joint Task Force and Department
of State Security Services.
Credit: Premium Times
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