NIFOR Chief Executive Ambushed, Kidnapped In Commando Style Operation

BREAKING NEWS APRIL 20TH: POLICE RESCUE DR. OKIY FROM HIS ABDUCTORS A FEW HOURS AFTER HIS KIDNAP. HE WAS FOUND IN THE BUSH WHERE HIS KIDNAPPERS ABANDONED HIM AFTER POLICE CLOSED IN ON THEM.

POLICE IMPOUNDED THE MERCEDES BENZ 190 SEDAN THE KIDNAPPERS USED FOR THE CRIME BUT NO ARREST HAVE BEEN MADE. NO RANSOM WAS PAID.

BENIN CITY, EDO April 19, (THEWILL) – THEWILL can report that Dr. D. A. Okiy, the Director of the Nigerian Institute For Oil Palm Research (NIFOR) was this evening in NIFOR, Benin, forcefully taken from his SUV by suspected kidnappers while his security detail was shot.

Though information on the incident is still sketchy, an eyewitness said the kidnappers forced the director into their own car before they sped off.

Dr. Okiy’s driver was shot at after he tried to trail the kidnappers using the directors black SUV.

The kidnappers were said to have escaped with their victim through a village called Ugbiyoko near Evbuotubu in Benin.

Meanwhile in another development, some youths and thugs in Oghara, Delta State, the hometown of fugitive Delta State former governor, Chief James Ibori blocked the Benin-Warri Express Way for several hours in anticipation that EFCC operatives would storm the town to arrest Chief Ibori, who is believed to be hiding in his country home in Oghara.

Ibori was declared wanted last week by the commission for his alleged role in the use of millions of Delta State government shares to obtain credit for a private company linked to him while he was governor of the state.

The governor has said the commission was out to embarrass him and put away for political reasons.