Former chairman of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees abducted in Edo

Alhaji Jimoh Olumoye, former chairman of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has been abducted on his way to farm to pick his children.

He was abducted on Sunday afternoon, along Igarra-Okpe Road while driving to the farm.

Unnamed member of the family told Daily Trust that his children raised alarm when they saw their father’s car with the doors opened and his phones abandoned.

His children had gone to the farm early in the morning and he promised to go and picked them in the afternoon before he would attend his family meeting, said the family source.

The children waited endlessly for their father and when they did not see him, decided to be trekking home.

On their way home, they met his car on the road with the four doors opened and his mobile phone abandoned. After searching for their father fruitlessly, they decided to now come home to inform the family.

We have been praying for his safety, we are worried because he is a civil servant who also farms to augment whatever he is earning as a civil servant.

We are appealing that his abductors release him unhurt. He has an aged mother and everybody is scared of breaking the news to her, we are really worried.

The source also said that the family has lodged a formal complaint at the Igarra police station .

Several vigilante groups in Igarra,Ojah,Ogugu and environs in Akoko-Edo local government area and their counterparts in Owan East have been organised to search the forests around the area.

A member of the vigilance group said,

It was only the State Security Service that responded to our call immediately we heard of the incident and called them. We have mobilised our members and we trying to track them down in the forests so they would move out to other states close to us.