Three farm managers have been reportedly abducted by six heavily armed suspected kidnappers at their commercial poultry farms at Pampo community, Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State.
It was gathered that the suspected kidnappers, dressed in Army uniform, shot into the air when they arrived in Hilux vehicle at one of the two farms they operated.
The suspected kidnappers reportedly got hold of the Chief Security Officer on the farm and locked him inside one room, before they took away the two farm workers in the first poultry farm.
According to one of the farm owners called Mirola farm, the bandits also abducted his farm manager when they visited his farm on their way out of the community.
The farm owner, who said that the suspected kidnappers had contacted other farm owners, noted that they demanded a total sum of N45 million for the three people abducted; N15 million ransom for each person.
He said the people kidnapped are two males and a female, hinting that the bandits spoke like Fulani in the way they spoke in the Yoruba language when we talked on the phone.
While confirming the development, Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO of the state Police Command, Ajayi Okasanmi, who confirmed the incident, said that the state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Bagega, has drafted officers and men of the Command on the incident, towards the eventual release of the kidnapped victims.
The PPRO, however, assured that the kidnappers would soon be apprehended and the victims released to their families.