“In the process, they hit me with a cutlass and injured me in my right hand. It was a very terrifying experience because I thought that they would kill the two of us.”
Sunday Omonigbo, the driver of Prof Gideon Okedayo, who was kidnapped by some gunmen on Thursday night, has shed more light into how his boss was abducted.
Okedayo, a senior lecturer at the Ondo State University of Science and Technology, was abducted while in transit in Edo State. According to Omonigbo, who spoke with SaharaReporters over the phone on Friday, the professor was seized while traveling back to his hometown of Igarra in Akoko Edo Area of Edo state.
He said, “We were driving in his vehicle when the kidnappers stopped us and started shooting into the air.See Also
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