The Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Cross River, comrade Ben Ukpepi has been kidnapped .
According to report he was kidnapped at CROSPIL estate, Akpabuyo, LGA at about 7:30 on Tuesday.
A source disclosed to newsmen that the NLC Chairman was outside taking fresh air with some people, but decided to go in.
The source further disclosed that:” When he went inside the house he got a call, because of the noise inside he decided to go outside to take the call that was when his abductors struck.
“For some minutes they waited for him to enter the house, he did not, they went to check on him, low and behold, he was nowhere to be found.
“They saw his slippers and glasses on the ground without any trace of him, his abductors also took his phone, his family have been calling his line, but it has been switched off since last night. And his abductors have not called up till now,” the source said.
Meanwhile, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in the state, DSP Irene Ugbo when contacted said she was yet to get any briefing on that.
She however, promised to get back to newsmen with detailed information at due time.
Details later…
