Nancy Keme Dickson, 26, Governor Seriake Dickson’s sister, has been kidnapped by armed men at the Okaka suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital. The gunmen also seized her salesgirl whose name was not ascertained at the time of filing this report.
Four gunmen were said to have stormed Keme’s shop at about 2.50pm Saturday in an ash-coloured Lexus Jeep. According to eyewitnesses, they trailed their victim to her shop along Okaka Road, Yenagoa where she and her salesgirl were forcibly taken away to an unknown destination.
Bayelsa State Police Public Relations Officer Asinim Butswat confirmed the incident.
Butswat said, “On December 19, 2015, at about 14.50hrs, four unknown gunmen in an ash Lexus Jeep, trailed one Nancy Keme Dickson, 26, to her shop at Okaka Road, Yenagoa, and abducted her and her sales girl to an unknown destination.”
Butswat said immediately the command was alerted, it embarked on a stop and search/cordon operations in a bid to rescue the victims and apprehend the perpetrators.
“Efforts have been intensified to arrest the abductors and investigation is ongoing.”
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