Rivers Kidnap Update: One of 14 Victims Escapes

The CP, who told our correspondent that
the victims are oil workers, wondered
why the driver carried on even after their
security escorts had stopped to fuel their
vehicles.
He, however, said his men have been on
the trail of the kidnappers and are
currently combing the bushes to
apprehend them.
Gunmen kidnapped 14 local oil workers
and their driver, police confirmed on
Friday.
The incident took place on a road
connecting the towns of Omoku and
Elele, around 50 km from the city of Port
Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, in the
early hours of Friday as the employees of
Nigerian energy company, Nestoil,
traveled to work, police said.
“We have recovered the vehicle they
were traveling in before the incident
occurred. Police are currently combing
bushes around the area in a bid to find
and release the victims,” said, the Police
PRO in the state, Nnamdi Omoni.
“I do not think there was a foreigner
among those kidnapped. Their abductors
have not made any contact and nobody
has been arrested yet,” Nnamdi told
Reuters.