The Isiala Ngwa North, Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) chairman, Comrade Wachukwu Okechukwu, has been reportedly kidnapped by gunmen.
Okechukwu was said to have been abducted at Nbawsi in Isiala Ngwa North LGA of Abia State at about 10:15pm at his elder brother’s viewing centre where he had gone to watch the champion league semi-final match between Liverpool and Barcelona on Tuesday night.
Unconfirmed reports have it that two yet-to-be identified candidates of the ongoing West African Examination Council who had come to the area for the May/June WASCE were said to have been hit by stray bullets as the abductors shot sporadically into the air while exiting the community with their victim.
He however the car of the kidnapped NULGE boss was later recovered where it was abandoned at one Umuala junction.Sources within the Isiala North and Abia leadership of NULGE said that they were yet to be officially notified about the incident as some of them claimed that they learnt about it through social media.
When contacted on his mobile phone, Abia State Police Command’s spokesman, SP Geoffrey Ogbonna said that he was yet to receive official information on the matter.
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