NUJ Condemns Abduction Of NTA Reporter In Akure

THE Nigerian Union of Journalists, Ondo State branch, has condemned the abduction on Thursday,
a practising journalist and nursing mother, Mrs. Olubunmi Oke, by unknown gunmen as she was
driving home from the premises of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Akure, Ondo State,
where she is a reporter and newscaster.
It was gathered that Oke was seized by a four-man gang of kidnappers who used their vehicle to
block her side of the road in front of a new popular hotel located along the road to Oba-Ile, a suburb
of Akure where her office is located.
The gunmen, after stopping her, were reported to have ordered her out of the car and drove her
away in their own vehicle to an unknown destination, leaving behind her baby and housemaid who
were in the car with her.
The NUJ yesterday said the Ondo State Police Command has recovered Oke’s car at Igbara-Oke, a
border town with Ekiti State.
The union in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Ebenezer Adeniyan, appealed to security
agencies to ensure that the abducted reporter is freed without harm.
According to him, “Mrs. Oke, a nursing mother was abducted shortly after she read the news on
NTA that evening and was with her child and housemaid when she was abducted and driven away
in her car, with the baby and maid dropped from the car.”
He added: “Her car has since been recovered along Igbara-Oke road at the outskirt of Akure,
leading to the suspicion that she may have been taken outside the state to an unknown
destination.
“The union has since informed the state government and the various security agencies in the state
on this unfortunate development.
“We condemn this barbaric act in its totality and we therefore seek the support of the security
agencies and the government in securing her release from the den of the kidnappers.”