The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State chapter, has called for unconditional release of the kidnapped renowned columnist with Vanguard newspaper, Dornu Kogbara, an Ogoni, insisting that her abduction underscores the breakdown of security in the state.
The party in a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary in the state, Chris Finebone, said it was in great pains over the abduction of the essayist.
The gunmen, who kidnapped Kogbara on Sunday morning, stormed her Nkpogu-Port Harcourt residence in a CRV car, amid gunshots.
The gunmen immediately disappeared with the columnist, whose whereabouts remained unknown and no demand for ransom had been made by the criminals at the time of filing this report.
The Rivers police Spokesman, Muhammad Kidaya Ahmad, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), confirmed the kidnap and noted that the police personnel were on the trail of the gunmen.
He assured that the victim would soon be rescued unhurt.
The party said: “A sundry reflection on the security situation of our dear Rivers State indicates that the several efforts made by the previous administration, which significantly brought criminality to its lowest ebb across the state, have now been reversed in just three months of the administration of Governor Nyesom Wike. The present sorry state of security in the state did not come by accident.
“Before and during the last campaigns, the APC warned that the worst thing that would happen to Rivers State was for Nyesom Wike to become governor of our dear state, especially with regard to security of life and property. The warning was based on a clear assessment and observation of the individuals who call the shots in the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and those they chose to engage as their foot soldiers to snatch electoral victory through the use of the guns.
“Today, the worst fears of the APC have come to stay in Rivers State, considering the skyrocketing level of killings, armed robberies and kidnappings sweeping through the length and breadth of the state, with negative impact on the economy and social life of the people and residents of the state.
“The APC will like to call on security agents in Rivers State and beyond to do all they can to ensure a quick and safe retrieval of the kidnapped journalist of international repute, whose only crime was to visit the family in Port Harcourt, the capital of her home state.”
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