Contrary to ealier reports
that the police rescued the
four abducted journalists,
kidnapped a week ago at
Umuafouka junction, in
Obingwa Local Government
Council of Abia State, facts
emanating from the state
revealed that the journalists
were released by their
abductors in the early hours
of today.
Wahab Oba and his
colleagues after thier
release today, in Umuahia
According to eyewitnesses,
the released journalists
were looking disheveld and
unkept with some of them
wearing bathroom slippers.
They were said to have been
fed on bread and water as
they were moved from one
location to the other, in the
forest during their captivity.
The released quartet of
Wahab Oba, Lagos council
Chairman of the Nigeria
Union of Journalists,(NUJ)
Adolphus Okonkwo, Zonal
secretary of the union, Sylva
Okereke, Assistant Secretary,
Lagos Council, Shola Oyeyipo,
member NUJ and their
driver, Azeez Abdulrauf are
awaiting the return of
Governor Theodore Orji, who
was said to be away in Abuja.
However, there are
indications, that the
journalists may have met
with the Inspector General of
Police, Ogbonna Onovo.
Wahab Oba addressing the
press today in Umuhia.
The journalists said that
they were not tortured by
their abductors who blamed
lack of development,
unemployment and injustice
in the polity for their action.
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Thanx To GOD ALMIGHTY!
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