Fulani herdsmen on Monday kidnapped an 80-year-old retired police officer, Chief James Omafuaire, his wife and one other person at Ikpesha, Auchi, Edo state.
According to source the Fulani herdsmen kidnapped the trio after N200,000 from a customer at the victim’s Quarry site.
Omafuaire, elder brother of Vanguard Newspaper Senior Photojournalist, Akpokona Omafuaire, and Chairman, NUJ Warri Correspondent Chapel, was kidnapped along with his wife, Mrs. Victoria Omafuaire and a customer while in the site.
According to the daughter of the victim, Christy Omafuaire Atie, “My father was supervising his workers at his quarry site in Ikpeshi near Auchi when the Fulani herdsmen with guns kidnapped him, his wife and a customer.
“They collected N200,000 from the customer and released his wife but they took both of them inside the bush.
“They have not contacted us. We call on the Edo State Governor to do everything to release my father. We beg the kidnappers to release him unhurt.”
