January 13, (THEWILL) – Passengers in a commercial bus heading to Lagos from Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, were on Tuesday abducted by unknown gunmen in Isiala Mbano, Imo State.
THEWILL gathered that the bus was intercepted by yet to be identified gunmen at Odo Rubber road in Obiohuru in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of the state, causing tension in the area.
The passengers were travelling in a bus marked Government of Akwa Ibom State when the gunmen struck, took them away leaving behind the vehicle and luggage.
A community source says that “no one knows where they were taken to as the bus was still steaming when the villagers saw it on Tuesday at that lonely area called Odo Rubber. Phones and luggage of the passengers were intact.”
Our correspondent gathered that the vehicle had been pushed out of the lonely road and handed over to the police.
The President-General of the community, Dr Sharon Ohaka, who spoke to THEWILL on the phone on Wednesday, said the bus had been pushed out of the lonely road by the youths. He also disclosed that the community had invited the police.
He said, “The vehicle had been pushed out of the lonely road. We have invited the police at the area command level and the divisional headquarters at Ishiebu. They have taken over the vehicle and the passengers’ luggage and the investigation process.
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