Gunmen
numbering about six have kidnapped the mother of the Bayelsa State
Commissioner for Lands and Survey, Mrs. Patimi Akene. The 78-year old
woman was kidnapped on her way back from a church programme on Saturday
night in company of one of her granddaughters.
The
men who didn’t fire a single shot, carefully bundled her and her
granddaughter into a waiting boat and sped away. It was gathered that
when the old woman tried to scream, a handkerchief was deep into her
throat before she was.....carefully whisked away.
Surprisingly,
the kidnappers have called her son, and demanded for his resignation as
ransom instead of their usual demand of money.
Speaking to the press the commissioner, Mr. Furoebi Akene said;
“Someone
that I suspected to be one of the kidnappers called me and said they
don’t need my money. But that I should ‘withdraw’ from the present
administration as commissioner. I think what they are demanding is for
me to resign my appointment.
“My
brother, I think the people interested in my job as commissioner in the
state are the ones behind the abduction of my mother.”
The police are doing everything in their power to arrest the culprits.
