Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, confirmed on Saturday that gunmen kidnapped wife of his Commissioner for Lands and Survey, Bernard Unenge, on Friday.
Briefing journalists in Makurdi, Governor Ortom called on the Federal Government to, as a matter of justice, clamp down hard on bandits and kidnap syndicates of armed herdsmen just as it had done with separatists leaders – Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho.
He assured the people of the state that all hands were on deck to rescue her, as both conventional security and local vigilance groups had been dispatched to track the abductors.
He expressed concerns over the growing cases of kidnapping and other organised crime across the country.
He tasked the Federal Government to take them heads-on.
Read Ortom: “We are working together with the security agencies. You don’t just review security matters sometimes because you will be exposing the victim.
“Throughout yesterday (Friday) night and today (Saturday), my security adviser is here and we are working with some conventional and unconventional security, they will be released.”
The Governor also expressed optimism that the nation would surmount all her security challenges.
Meanwhile, the abductors of the commissioner’s wife have contacted the family to demand ₦50 million.
An aide to the commissioner who disclosed the development said the kidnappers established contact with the family.
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