By Dada Ahmed in Lokoja
The Police Command in Kogi State has commenced the search for the where abouts of the Chairman, Yagba West Local Government Area of the state, Mr Pious Kolawole, according to its Public Relations Officer (PRO), DSP William Ovye Aya.
Aya disclosed this in a telephone interview with the Correspondent of The Reporters in Lokoja on Sunday while confirming gunmen attack on Kolawole and a member, Kogi State Pension Commission,Mr Solomon Akeweje.
He said Kolawole was coming from Ilorin, capital of Kwara state to Egbe in Kogi state with Akeweje in the same car when they were attacked by gunmen at Eruku, the boundary between the two states.
The Police image maker said that Akeweje was hit by gunmen’s bullet and died in the process, adding that his remains had been deposited at ECWA hospital, Egbe while the whereabiut of Kolawole remaimed unknown.
“The Commissioner Police of Police in the state,Mr Ede Ayuba, has deployed personnel to the area to search for and rescue the chairman from his abductors. The command is not resting on its oars to secure his release,” Aya assured.
Meanwhile, the tragic death of the pension board member and the fact that the whereabiut of the chairman remained a mirage, as at the time of this report on Sunday, has thrown the area into mourning with the people describing it as”Black Saturday.”
