Spokesman for Police in Bayelsa Butswat Asimin confirmed this in Yenagoa on Saturday.

Asimin said the police had mobilised to fish out the perpetrators.

“The Police Anti-kidnapping Unit and other relevant security agencies have been mobilised to track down the kidnappers”, he said.

According to a family source, which preferred anonymity, the victim was abducted on his way from Okpoama to Egweama for burial of wife, Comfort.

``Gunmen attacked their commercial speedboat and whisked the septuagenarian away at about 9 a.m. on Saturday.’’

His son, Alfred, said the kidnappers were yet to make any contact with the family members.