A few weeks after the Kogi State Commissioner for Environment, Adewale Omofaiye, escaped being kidnapped, the mother of the Chief of Staff to Governor Yahaya Bello has been abducted by gunmen.
Sources said Madam Seriya Raji was abducted around 8pm on Monday at her residence in the Nagazi area of Okene in Kogi State.
The gunmen, who were masked and dressed in black suits, gained access to her room through the mosque beside her house, one of her neighbours said.
In the last week of November, the Kogi commissioner, Omofaiye, between Ikoyi and Iyara areas of the state, had been attacked and escaped with injuries.
Three persons were said to be in the car when they were waylaid and attacked by the suspected kidnappers.
SaharaReporters had reported that the suspected kidnappers opened fire on his vehicle while he was on his way to Lokoja and he was hit in the leg by a bullet.
It had been reported that some motorists were kidnapped and taken to the bush during the attack.
