The victim
Gunmen have abducted the wife of Benue State Commissioner for Land and Survey in Benue State, Bernard Unenge.
Addressing journalists on the issue, Governor Samuel Ortom said the commissioner’s wife was whisked away on Friday.
Ortom tasked the Federal Government to, as a matter of justice, clamp down on bandits and kidnap syndicates as it did with Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho.
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The governor also assured that all hands are on the deck to rescue her, as both conventional security and local vigilantes groups have been dispatched to track the abductors.
He decried the growing cases of kidnapping and other organised crime across the country, asking the Federal Government to tackle them heads-on.
Meanwhile, the abductors of the commissioner’s wife have contacted the family to demand ₦50 million.
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