Friday, October 2, 2026 - An unspecified number of travellers have been kidnapped on Nigeria's independence day.
According to reports, at least 2 commercial buses were affected. The passengers and drivers were reportedly taken away by armed kidnappers.
According to an eyewitness report, the incident happened
along the Onitsha–Owerri Road in Imo State.
Other vehicles travelling along the road were also
reportedly affected, with passengers in some of the vehicles allegedly taken
away by the kidnappers.
The exact number of people kidnapped is not yet clear.
A video shared online shows loved ones stating that some of
those kidnapped are corps members who left with Uko Akwa Ibom Motors from
Ibadan to travel to the places they were posted to in various states in the
south-east and south-south zones.
The passengers boarded a bus at Samonda, Ibadan, with the
aim of travelling to orientation camps in Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Imo, and Abia
Some distraught family members visited the park where their
loved ones took off from and recorded a video informing family member of other
travellers who left from the same park of what has happened.
"They carried everybody, including the driver," a
passenger who boarded a bus that managed to escape the incident said as he
filmed the commercial bus abandoned by the roadside after the passengers and
drivers had been abducted.
One woman narrated how her child left the park in Ibadan to
travel to orientation camp in the east. She said that they received a message
from her child in their family's WhatsApp group earlier this morning, October
1st.
According to the mother, her child typed
"kidnapper" and that was the last they heard. She said they have been
calling her child's number but it has remained unreachable.
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