2 labour leaders, pregnant woman kidnapped in Rivers

Gunmen (file photo)

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Monday abducted  Carols Tam Tolufari and Mrs Ibim Oposunju, the chairman and secretary of Rivers State chapter Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, along Elele-Isiokpo road in Ikwerre local government area of Rivers State. on

The two union executives were kidnapped along with a pregnant woman whose identity has not been disclosed on their way back to Port Harcourt from Abuja.

The state Chairperson of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Mrs Beatrice Ituboh who disclosed this to journalists on Wednesday appealed to the abductors of the union leaders to release them unconditionally because their victims are mere civil servants who do not have money to pay ransom.

Mrs Beatrice Ituboh said the two Union leaders were abducted on Monday evening and since then, nothing has been heard about them.