Police on the trail of abductors of Turkish nationals in Akwa Ibom

ayodele johnson

April 11, 2017 8:33 PM

The Turkish construction workers were taken away by their abductors from their lodgings in Akwa Ibom State.

Gunmen (Illustration)

The Akwa Ibom State Police are currently on the trail of suspected kidnappers who abducted two Turkish citizens from their hotel rooms.

This was confirmed by Chukwu Okechukwu, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPPRO) who spoke to newsmen today.

According to report, the abductees who are reportedly workers at BTS Construction Company, a building firm in the state were taken from their confinement on Sunday, April 9, 2017.

“Two Turkish nationals working for a construction company in Onna local government area were abducted from their hotel rooms on Sunday,” said Okechukwu.

The incident is one of many of such cases regularly recorded in the oil rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria where security for expatriates is almost non-existent.

Thugs and unidentified miscreants have often relied on the abduction of foreign workers of noble nationality in a bid to receive a ransom for their release.

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The amount requested by these individuals are usually huge sums amounting to millions of dollars.

Most of the time, the victims of such abduction lose their lives despite a successful payment of the ransom to the kidnappers.

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