Fourteen Oil workers were kidnapped yesterday
afternoon around Omoku-Elele link road.
A Costa bus carrying the company’s
workers was accosted and diverted to an unknown destination under heavy gunfire
by the bandits. The workers were returning to Port
Harcourt after they had gone to work at
Omoku area. The Public Relations Officer of Rivers State Police
Command, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed the development and quickly adding that the
police were on top of the situation. Omoni said, “We are combing the area right
now. We are doing our best to rescue the victims and apprehend the kidnappers.