Gunmen in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State have reportedly kidnapped an army officer identified as Major M.D. Josiah from a hotel he lodged.
Major Josiah was believed to have been abducted after returning from a wedding ceremony on Sunday in Bomadi, the headquarters of the local government.
The incident which led soldiers from the Bomadi Division of the military Joint Task Force (JTF), reportedly sent jitters into the spine of the residents of the riverside community as they panicked over possible consequences and reprisal attacks by the patrolling soldiers in Bomadi and the surrounding communities.
Information pieced together indicated that Major Josiah attended a marriage ceremony at Kpakiama community, a neighbouring community of Bomadi at the weekend and later proceeded to his lodge in Bomadi, the council’s headquarters.
However, some armed men later stormed the lodge in the dead of the night at about 2:00am and ransacked the various rooms of the hotel.
During the process, the gunmen seized the phones of the lodgers and left with the military officer in a vehicle that was parked outside the lodge.
A source in Bomadi said; “The kidnappers came to the hotel around 2:00am to 2.30 am last night and searched every room, collected the mobile phones of the lodgers and forced the military officer to follow them outside.
“They even shot a gun before zooming out of the hotel premises with the military officer in their vehicle. There was also blood on the ground after they had left the premises.
“The following day, we heard that the JTF found the vehicle in which they carried out the operation in neighbouring Tuomo community, which was abandoned by the side of the Tuomo-Ogbobagbene-Tamigbe-Torugbene-Ojobo road.
“The vehicle has already been brought to their base at Bomadi-Overside,” the source said.
