By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
The security situation in Ondo State took a turn for the worse on Thursday as unknown gunmen kidnapped the wife of the Chief of Staff to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, Mr. Olugbenga Ale.
This latest security nightmare is coming the same day gunmen suspected to be kidnappers killed a first class traditional ruler in the state, the Olufon of Ifon, Oba Israel Adeusi, at the Elegbeka area of Ose Local Government Area on Thursday.
TheNiche gathered on Friday that Mrs. Ale was kidnapped alongside her driver and one other person along Ondo-Akure Expressway at the Owen area of Idanre Local Government Area of the state on Thursday night.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Tee-Leo Ikoro, has confirmed the incident.
Meanwhile, a highly exasperated Akeredolu, who was reelected for a second term of four years on October 10 has ordered the security agencies to fish out the killers of the first-class monarch.
Akeredolu, who visited the affected area where the monarch was killed in the company of top government functionaries, described the incident as a sad occurrence.
He said, “The security agencies, especially the Nigeria Police, have already been directed to fish out the perpetrators of this heinous crime.
“On our part as a government, we shall give whatever it takes to unravel this; these criminals who have wrought this sad day on our state shall not go unpunished.”
The abduction of the wife of his Chief of Staff will no doubr add to his discomfiture.
