Gunmen abduct Benue Information Commissioner

Gunmen abduct Benue Information Commissioner

Benue State Commissioner of Information, Culture and Tourism, Matthew Abo, has been abducted.

Abo was abducted from his residence in his hometown in Zaki-Biam community of Ukum Local Government Area of the state on Sunday night.

It was gathered that the commissioner was abducted by gunmen who rode on four motorcycles to his house in Zaki-Biam, a rural town famous for being the largest yam market in the country.

In his account of the incident, Tahav Agerzua, a former media aide to two ex-governors of the state, wrote that when the gunmen arrived at the information commissioner’s residence, they ordered everyone, including his wife and children to lie face down, after which they took him away to an unknown destination on one of the motorcycles.

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