Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have reportedly abducted two women at a gunpoint in phase 11, the Lokogoma estate area of Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.
City & Crime gathered that the incident happened at the weekend around 6.30 pm in the Lokoja metropolis.
One of the abducted women identified as Mrs Afolabi Toyin is the CEO of Testayo supermarket who sells children materials in the phase 11 area of Lokoja, while the second woman, Mrs Taiwo Hannah Orebiyi, is said to be a wife of the Chairman, Kogi Tourism Board.
A family source said the hoodlums trailed the super market owner to her house in the Lokogoma phase 11 estate, picked and ferried her to an unknown destination.
The wife of the chairman, Kogi Tourism Board, was said to have been kidnapped along with the supermarket owner for raising alarm over their action when she was passing by during their operation.
“Mrs Orebiyi incurred the wrath of the hoodlums when he raised the alarm of the ongoing incident at the supermarket. Suddenly, some of the hoodlums swung on her, forced her into their car and zoomed off,” said an eyewitness, who craved anonymity.
The state police command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Williams Aya, did not respond to the text messages sent to him on the incident.