Three corp members kidnapped in Rivers

PORT HARCOURT: THREE corps members
have been kidnapped at the Corpers’ lodge
in Ogonokom Community Secondary
school, Abua/Odua local government area.
The state Police Public Relations Officer,
DSP Angela Agabe confirmed the
development. Sunday Vanguard gathered
that those kidnapped were two males and
one female corps members.
Sources around the Corpers’lodge told the
Sunday Vanguard that the kidnappers
stormed the lodge at about 12 midnight
yesterday, adding that they shot
sporadically to scare the neighbourhood.
As  press time, Sunday Vanguard learnt
that no contact had been established with
relatives and colleagues of the kidnapped
Corps members for ransom. The state DSP
Agabe said that the Police was on top of
the situation, stressing that efforts were on
to secure the release of the hostages, a
development community sources
corroborated when they spoke to the
Sunday Vanguard.
Abduction of Corps members is not a
strange incident in the state as they had
been kidnapped about four times  in the
last three years.
A source at the National Youth Service Corp
secretariat  said Corps members at
Ogonokom community had been relocated
temporarily to a nearby community for
safety. “They might go back to Ogonokom
community when their security is assured”,
the source said.