How gunmen abducted 45 passengers in 3 commercial buses
About 45 passengers of three fully loaded 15-seater commercial buses are reported to have been abducted by armed men in Orokam, along the Otukpo-Enugu Road, Ogbadigbo Local Government Area of Benue State. It was gathered from an eyewitness and driver of one of the commercial transportation companies in Makurdi who escaped the ambush with his passengers, that the incident occurred at about 3:30 pm on Thursday. The heavily armed men were reported to have ambushed the ill-fated commercial vehicles when they sprang from the nearby forests in Orokam and forced their drivers at gunpoint to pull over. According to him, “It was easy for the armed men to stop the vehicles because that portion of the road is very bad. “The first person that came out of the bush was a heavily built young man who came out carrying automatic rifle and chain of bullets round his body. “I saw three of them come out of the bush with guns, this was at about 3:30 pm on Thursday in broad daylight. “Their target was comme...