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Kogi Magistrate abducted, N100m ransom demanded

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The abductors of Sam Unwuchola, a Magistrate with Kogi judiciary, have demanded for N100 million ransom. He was kidnapped at Jimgbe, near Salem University, on the Ajaokuta-Lokoja road around 7pm on Thursday.

According to a source in the state judiciary, the gunmen shot and wounded the magistrate’s friend whose name was yet to be known, saying that the friend had been admitted to an undisclosed medical facility in Lokoja.

When contacted, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Ali Janga, said the police had commenced an investigation into the matter.

NAN reports that Unwuchola, a 2002 Law graduate of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma in Edo, is the President, Upper Area Court, Onyedega in Ibaji Local Government Area of the state.

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The battle against kidnapping and other forms of criminality in the state began about five months ago when the state government ordered the demolition of 13 houses belonging to arrested kidnappers in the central senatorial district of the state.

The Special Adviser on security to the Governor, Navy Commodore Jerry Omodara (retired), told journalists in Okene that the exercise would continue until the state was rid of kidnapping and other criminality.

“The Kogi State government will not relent efforts to flush out criminal elements in their hideouts” Omodara assured.

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He warned that anybody caught aiding and abetting crimes in the state would also not be spared, irrespective of status in the society.

The governor’s aide said the state government had no choice than to take the drastic action, in view of the havoc meted on innocent people of the state by hoodlums in recent times.

He said the state government had also inaugurated 300-man-joint security outfit dedicated to fighting kidnapping, armed robbery, cultism and other violent crimes codenamed: Operation Total Freedom.” to further check criminality in the state.

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He said members of the outfit were drawn from the police, the army, the navy and the National Security and Civil Defence Corps.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the state government recently handed over 114 patrol vehicles to the various security agencies in the state, to boost their effort in fighting crime.

NAN

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