Anxiety over abduction of 8 oil workers

There is tension at MRS Oil Nigeria Plc office, Tin Can First Gate, Apapa, Lagos, over the whereabouts of eight of its employees, who were kidnapped on June 26, 2023, at the Lagos Island backwater.

Vanguard gathered that the abducted employees, the Managing Director and seven others, were in a boat heading towards Lekki area.

Apprehension, however, set in when the boat they boarded was  found drifting in a different area, from where they were headed,  without them. 

Sources at the oil company told Vanguard that their laptops and bags were found in the boat.

Sources said: “Eye witnesses said they were forced out of their boat into another that took them away. The boat did not capsize. Their belongings were intact.”

Another source at the oil firm confirmed to Vanguard that the MD and seven other employees were among the people kidnapped.

Also, Chairman, Lagos Maritime Security Zone of the Port Facility Security Officers Forum, PFSO, Mr. Wole Gege, confirmed the incident, saying nothing had been heard from the kidnapped employees.

He also stated that family members of the affected employees had been informed.

Gege said: “We hope we will get an update soon. Security authorities have been alerted of the development and have begun investigation.”

Spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hudenyin, also confirmed the incident when contacted, but did not give further details.