By Barbara Kalu (PORT HARCOURT) –
Jephthah Robert, a cousin of Nigeria’s immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has been abducted by armed men believed to be kidnappers.
He was abducted from his house around Dimrose Road in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State in oil-rich Niger Delta regions also known as South-South geo-political zone of Nigeria.
The abducted, as learnt, took placed at about 9:30 am on Tuesday in front of Jephthah’s house.
Jephthah, who is said to be the elder brother of Azibaola Robert, is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zeetin Engineering Limited.
A spokesman for the Bayelsa State Police Command, Asinim Butswat, a Superintendent of Police (SP), confirmed the incident in a terse response to inquiries.
Butswat said: “He was picked up at Dimrose Road in Yenagoa. We are intensifying effort to rescue him and arrest the kidnappers. “We are working on a promising lead.”
The kidnapping of Jonathan’s cousin happened barely 24 hours after the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Industry, Trade and Investment, Federal Otokito was released by his abductors.
