A former Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Lawman Duruji, has been kidnapped by gunmen at Ehime Mbano LGA while returning from a function.
According to PUNCH, a businessman popularly known as Ezzybee was also kidnapped in Owerri, the state capital.
While Duruji was kidnapped on Saturday Ezzybee was kidnapped on Sunday on his way to watch a local football match.
Also kidnapped is the wife of an ex-chairman of Okigwe Local Government Area, Frank Onwunere. Unidentified persons were also kidnapped at Okwelle junction in the Onuimo LGA of the state, and at the Umbomiri junction in the Mbaitoli and Amaraku in the Mbano LGAs of the state.
The spates of kidnappings took place separately between Saturday and Sunday in the state.
When contacted, the state police spokesperson, Micheal Abattam, said that the command was on the trail of the kidnappers.
Abattam disclosed that one of the victims who was kidnapped at Ubomiri had been rescued by the police.