The wife of an owner of popular Bougainville Hotel, located on
Sanni Abacha Road in Port Harcourt, has been kidnapped by a group of
gunmen at her residence.
A source said on Monday that the
woman, who is married to a Briton, was accosted by her assailants while
trying to drive into the compound.The victim, Mrs. Grace Dickson, was
said to have been abducted by her assailants at about 11pm on Sunday
while she was returning to her house in the Government Reserved Area in
Port Harcourt.
It was learnt that the suspected kidnappers, who
were armed, ordered Mrs. Dickson to open the door of the vehicle before
they could gain entrance.
The perplexed private security man, who
noticed what happened, immediately closed the gate while the gunmen took
Mrs. Dickson away in her car to an unknown destination.
“She was
kidnapped as soon as she drove to her gate. While waiting for the
gateman to open the gate for her, about four men shouted at her to open
the doors of the vehicle (brand not ascertained),” the source said.
Confirming
the incident, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Angela
Agabe, explained that her abductors had ambushed their target at the
gate to her residence on Sunday night.
Agabe explained that Mrs.
Dickson was driving alone when she was abducted and taken away to an
unknown destination in her vehicle.
She added that the security
man failed to inform the kidnapped woman’s husband, who came in some
minutes later that his wife had been kidnapped until the following
morning.
“It is true that she (Mrs. Dickson) was abducted. She
left the hotel and was driving home alone around 11pm. The person
manning the gate, opened it for her to enter, but she was taken away in
her car by the kidnappers,” the PPRO noted
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