EKITI: Gunmen abduct petrol station manager

THE manager of a petrol station, Itakorodo Adebayo, was abducted by gunmen yesterday evening.

The gunmen numbering about eight, rode on motorcycles, when they attacked the police station situated at Isan Ekiti in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State.

They were said to have shot repeatedly to scare away passersby before they forcibly took away the victim.

The Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Police Command, Tunde Mobayo, who confirmed the abduction, said that the law enforcement agents had begun the search for the victim and the abductors.

Mobayo, in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer for the Command, Sunday Abutu, titled, ‘Isan Abduction: Ekiti State Police Command Deploys Rescue Team’, said, “A team of police operatives and detectives including the Amotekun Corps and the local hunters have been deployed to rigorously comb the bushes and the forests across the state to ensure the rescue of the victim.

“The Ekiti State Police Command, in addition to the rescue teams deployed, has contacted all the states bordering Ekiti State for possible assistance towards the rescue of the victim and the arrest of the perpetrators.”

The Commissioner of Police implored anyone with useful information that could assist the police to rescue the victim and apprehend the culprits to inform the nearest police station or call 08062335577.

“Adebayo was abducted at Isan Ekiti at about 7pm on Thursday by unknown gunmen numbering about eight who stormed the filling station through the bush on about six motorcycles and started shooting sporadically before whisking the victim away,” the police added.