Whereabouts of kidnapped ex-Ogun Speaker’s wife, daughter unknown

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NIGERIA: FIVE days after their abduction, kidnappers are yet to reach out to the families of the Director of Information, Odogbolu Local Government in Ogun State, Mrs. Nofisat Bola Oshin, and her teenage daughter, Afolabi.

The family members told GatewayMail that the abductors were yet to get in touch with them while the whereabouts of the mother and child remain unknown.

The Director’s husband, Dr. Tokunbo Oshin, disclosed at the weekend that preliminary information gathered

indicated that the gunmen, who abducted the duo, were four in number.

“We are yet to hear from the abductors,” Oshin, a one-time Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, said, adding: “We learnt that the gunmen were four in number.”

He stressed: “As at the time you are ‎calling me now, we are yet to hear from them nor know their whereabouts.”

It would be recalled that Nofisat and Afolabi were Thursday night abducted around 8pm in Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State.

The Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ) raised the alarm in a statement last Friday that the Director, who was accompanied by her daughter at the time, was driving along Akobi Street in Ijebu-Ode when the suspected kidnappers accosted them at gunpoint.

GatewayMail learnt that they were taken away in the car, which was later abandoned at Okun-Owa near Odogbolu.

According to the statement signed by the Acting Chairman of the Ogun NUJ, Mr. Soji Amosu, since the abduction, the whereabouts of the Director, who is a member of the NUJ, and her daughter, remain unknown.

“The Director of Information in Odogbolu Local Government Mrs. Nosifat Oshin and her 15 year old daughter Miss Afolabi were yesterday (Thursday) night kidnapped by unknown gunmen along Akobi Street in Ijebu-Ode,Ogun State,” the union said‎.

The union added: “Mrs. Oshin who is a member of the Ogun State Council of the ‎Nigeria Union of Journalists was allegedly kidnapped around 8pm.

“Their whereabouts is unknown since yesterday (Thursday) while her car has been abandoned at Okun-Owa in

Odogbolu local government of the state.”

The NUJ, which described the abduction as barbaric, enjoined security agencies and the state government to do all as soon as possible to arrest the kidnappers and ensure the release of the director and her daughter.

The union, however, said that it had reported the matter to the police while the family members, too, have been notified.

It would be recalled that only recently, the former Minister of State for Education, Senator Iyabode Anisulowo, was kidnapped in Igbogila area in Ogun State by unknown gunmen.

The police eventually freed Anisulowo seven days after, on the day a N5 million ransom was offered to anyone who could provide information that would lead to her abductors.