Passengers in an 18-seater bus have been reportedly kidnapped at Anyigba-Itobe road in Ofu Local Government Area (LGA) of Kogi state.
Blueprint learnt that the hoodlums in their numbers shut at the said bus and evacuated the passengers to the bush.
The bus was said to be heading to Abuja from the eastern region of the country.
Confirming the report, the security adviser to Kogi state governor, Commander Jerry Omodara, in a statement Thursday, said the state government was on top of the case.
He noted that the state government has put enough measures in place to arrest the kidnappers and rescue the victims as well as stem the tide of criminal activities in the area.
Omodara said since the hoodlums had resurfaced in the region, the government will rejig its measures and match fire to fire, assuring that the hoodlums will be neutralised shortly .
“We have fought them, we will fight them, and we will continue to fight them, until they are neutralised in that axis of the state. Security agents have been alerted and they will do the needful,” he said.
He stated further that the government has zero-tolerance to criminal activities in any part of the state, assuring that the tide of such ugly incident would be reduced and eliminated.
