A nursing mother has been kidnapped in a Bayelsa State community, a development which has caused serious outrage in the area.
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The Supreme Council for Non-Indigenes in Bayelsa on Friday condemned the kidnapping of a nursing mother, Mrs. Roselyn Okokingho in Town brass, Brass local Government Area of the state, by gunmen, Vanguard reports.
A statement issued in Yenagoa by the council’s President, Mr. Ade Bakare, said the kidnappers broke into Okokingho’s house around 8.45 p.m. on Tuesday and abducted her.
Bakare called on the Police Command in the state to do everything within its means to secure the unconditional release of the victim.
He said Okokingho’s release should be urgent and necessary because she was a nursing mother whose baby was currently being denied breast milk as a result of the abduction.
He said the husband of the victim, Mr. Pius Okokingho, had reported the matter to the Police in Brass local government area “The council expresses solidarity with the victim’s family; and we have confidence in the ability of the police to secure her release.
“We want the police to also bring the abductors to justice,” the president said.
The Spokesman of the Bayelsa Police Command, DSP Asimin Butswat, said the command was aware of the incident but had yet to get the details.