The Edo State Justice Daniel
Okungbowa of the Edo State High Court has been kidnapped. This incident
happened less than three weeks after the release of a human rights activist and
lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhomhe, SAN, by his abductors. Justice Okungbowa was
reportedly kidnapped in Benin City, the state capital, while his whereabouts
remain unknown at press time.
Meanwhie, the Benin branch of
Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, led by its Chairman, Mr. Oriame Akene led
lawyers to protest to the Edo State Police Command office and the Department of
Security Service, DSS, where they demanded for the release of the abducted
judge unhurt. The lawyers described the Judge’s kidnap as one too many and
appealed to the security agencies to do something about it.
When contacted, Edo State Police
Commissioner, Mr. Foluso Adebanjo, denied that the judge was kidnapped, noting
that it was merely a case of missing person.
Meanwhile, the state Police Public
Relations Officer, Moses Eguavoen, who responded to the lawyers demand, said
that the police was working hard to ensure that the judge was released unhurt.
It will be recalled that recently,
the wife, daughter and driver of Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour of the Supreme
Court were kidnapped in Benin, Edo State.
The gunmen reportedly waylaid the
woman, her daughter and their driver at gunpoint as they were driving to Benin,
in preparation for Justice Vivour daughter’s wedding. It was learnt that that
Mrs. Rhodes-Vivour and her daughter were kept in a house in Upper Sakpoba area
of Benin City from where the suspects were arrested.
Source: Vanguard
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