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Suspected Fulani herdsmen kidnap 80-year-old retired police officer, wife in Edo

Reports reaching DAILY POST says suspected Fulani herdsmen have kidnapped an 80-year old retired Superintendent of Police and former Divisional Police Officer, Chief James Omafuaire.

He was abducted alongside his Wife, Mrs. Victoria and a customer at his Ikpedhi Quarry Site in Auchi,Edo State.

Chief James Omafuaire is an elder brother to Vanguard Newspaper Senior Photo-Journalist, Akpokona Omafuaire in Warri.

The Octogenarian’s daughter, Christy Omafuaire Atie confirmed the report.

” My father was supervising his workers at his quarry site in Ikpeshi near Auchi when the Fulani herdsmen with guns kidnapped him, his wife and a customer.

“They collected N200,000 from the customer and released his wife but they took both of them inside the bush.

“They have not contacted us. We call on the Edo State Governor to do everything to release my father. We beg the kidnappers to release him unhurt” she pleaded.

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