NNPC spokesman Ndu Ughamadu said the men, working as consultants were kidnapped near Jibi village in Borno state on Tuesday afternoon. The village is in Magumeri local government area, about 50 km (30 miles) from the state capital, Maiduguri.
“About 10 members of the University of Maiduguri geology and surveying department were abducted by suspected Boko Haram members,” Ughamadu said. The group included academic staff, drivers and other contractors.The university said some of its lecturers, who were accompanied by security staff, had not returned on Tuesday from a prospecting trip. Its spokesman said the university was waiting for a report from security agencies.
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Let me play the Devil's Advocate here. Are we being told that the research team went out oil-prospecting without any security aid, especially as it is in Borno, the Mecca of terrorism in Nigeria?
ReplyDeleteI smell foul play. This is looking more like an "arranged kindnaping." Some powerful people want to steal money and they have just found a "legal" way to do it when billions of Naira would change hands all in the name of paying the "ransom money for the release of the 10 researchers."
Nigeria is a comedy! Smh!